(現在分詞/動名詞) 飛機票價預測 (預測何時購買機票可以買在票價最低點)。亦寫成 fare-casting。這個字是由 airfare (飛機票價) + forecasting (預測) 拼綴而成。
—farecaster (名詞):飛機票價預測者。
引句:
Hopper and Flyr are what are known as "farecasting" services. As their name implies, farecasters not only show what the lowest rates are currently but where they're apt to go, and when. Never again will you pay $1,100 to fly from Kansas City to Tucson just because you didn't know the rates were being halved in another week.
—Kit Kiefer, "Travel-Tech Review: Two New Farecasting Apps Tested," Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection, May 18, 2015
A handful of new and updated websites and apps are trying to perfect the art of what's known as farecasting — predicting the best date to buy a ticket.
—Stephanie Rosenbloom, "The Art of 'Farecasting' the Lowest Airfare," The New York Times, September 14, 2015
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