Farecast! Or at least it is according to me. I agree with whomever awarded this site a Web 2.0 Award (2007), because I find it very useful. My extended family is scattered all over the map, meaning that we have to book flights if we want to see them. It's a constant headache to figure out when to book and when to wait. That's why I like this site, which can tell me how likely it is that fares will drop or rise in the near future.
The only downside I've found so far is that the predictions are only available for certain locations, which don't include most of the cities I need. Of course, I can always let the price for the nearest large city guide my purchase, but that's less exact. As far as I can tell, Farecast doesn't make predictions for international flights. Seeing as that's the site's specialty, the relative scarcity of options could have killed its usefulness. The saving grace is that even if the predictions are only available sporadically, the search results still show the lowest prices from many other airfare search engines.
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