Superfly Takes On Google And Kayak With Personalized Flight Search

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Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

Thursday, November 24th, 2011
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Israeli startup Superfly, which debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010, launched earlier this year as a service to organize travel rewards (i.e. frequent flier miles or hotel rewards) and educate users on how to maximize their value when using rewards points or miles.

Today, Superfly is taking this a step further by allowing users to book air travel through the website and receive personalized recommendations based on status, miles and more.

Once you sign in with your accounts, Superfly will display miles earned over time, spending patterns, and more. While on many travel sites you can search flight inventory by cost, time, or airline; Superfly’s engine adds an individual’s data, including frequent flyer miles, elite statuses, rewards programs and individual preferences into the decision-making process of choosing a flight.

So if you search for a flight from Chicago to San Francisco, and have miles on American Airlines and United, you can sort your flight search by value. Superfly will show you which flights make sense for miles usage and which don’t.

In the future, founder Jonathan Meiri says that Superfly will expand to hotel search and bookings as well. And the site plans to aggregate and parse the data from its users to make recommendations. For example, Superfly will show you which hotels American Airlines Gold members tend to stay at when on a business trip to London.

Of course, Superfly will be going head to head with Kayak, Google and others with flight search. But Meiri says that the personalized nature of Superfly’s flight search, as well as some of the future data insights, will help differentiate the portal from some of these travel and search giants.


Company: Superfly
Website: superfly.com
Launch Date: September 2010
Funding: $500k

Superfly helps consumers organize their miles and points, understand what they are worth and how to achieve elite status faster. Superfly flight search, is a secure tool that combines worldwide flight information with personal travel preferences in order to help consumers find the best value. For airlines, hotel chains and other travel providers, Superfly provides a platform to identify and target travelers with unique and personalized offers. Superfly leverages data, specifically travel history, and airline share-of-wallet information to...

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