Website finds cheap fares from Phoenix

A new travel website promises to make finding cheap flights easier by search the web for deals and then matching them with your travel interests.

And the second place it is launching its service is Phoenix.

Moonfish was founded by George Zeng and Craig Campbell, who say they met as employees at Facebook and plan to take an engineering approach to spotting travel deals.

“We noticed online that some people manually collect this flight information but oftentimes the flight information they collect is sometimes not relevant to people,” said Zeng who co-founded and launched Moonfish with Campbell three months ago.

“So I would get emails (for fares) from Chicago to London for cheap — but we don’t live in Chicago and we don’t want to go to London,” Zeng said.

The website searches for cheap flights. Then, through technology like that used on Facebook to match ads to people’s interests, Moonfish matches the flight deal to the interests of the traveler.

The result, Zeng and Campbell say, is more relevant flight deals tailored to your interests and departure city with far less work. For instance, people who like beach destinations might get recommendations for off-the-beatenpath island locations while someone who enjoys the mountains will get suggestions of deals to those destinations.

Signing up for Moonfish is free and you get one deal each day. To get more deals, you have to pay for the premium plan, which costs $24 per year. It includes unlimited access to all the deals plus priority notification.