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The idea sounds good. I always thought why most travel/ticket sites don't have a feature like that (the search always assumes you have set date to leave and ret
by hcarvalhoalves 13y ago
The idea sounds good. I always thought why most travel/ticket sites don't have a feature like that (the search always assumes you have set date to leave and return, there's no way to search, e.g., "all flights for the next 10 days, sorted by price").
- cwp 13y agoTry this: http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ It will let you do searches like "flights between <date> and a month later, staying <n> to <m> nights" You can also put in travel agent routing codes, which let you do stuff like "flights on American Airlines, connecting through Atlanta" or "not connecting though Chicago". Very handy.
- hcarvalhoalves 13y agoThis is excellent, thanks a bunch.
- saryant 13y agoDon't most travel sites do that? Kayak and ITA have that feature. Hell, even United offers it on their site.
- geverett 13y agoThe trouble with all these sites, at least to me, is that they still make me do so much searching and research. And I still have to have a specific destination in mind. I'd say at any time I'm vaguely interested in hundreds of different trips: right now, I'd probably book a ticket to anywhere warm this weekend if I could find something for under $200, and I could justify flying out to SF if it cost less than $300, and I'm planning to go to Zagreb in the next two months so knowing when those prices are good would be useful. But I'm not going to sit at my computer typing in every beach destination to ITA's matrix, or setting up a Kayak alert for each one. We'd like Hitlist to be an ever-smarter travel agent who is monitoring all this stuff for me... and maybe in the future will also know about my airline alliance and stopover preferences too.
- _delirium 13y agoOne use-case I often have, fwiw, is "what's the cheapest transatlantic flight right now?", which I have to find through trial-and-error. Once I know that, I can often find a cheap way to get to/from the relevant endpoints which doesn't show up on a regular fare search (train, bus, low-cost airline, etc.). Of course a full end-to-end search that took into account all travel modalities and included all the low-cost carriers would be even better, but that seems like a more difficult information-aggregation problem.
- smackfu 13y agoKayak Explore is pretty good for that. Select your city in the US, then check non-stop and Europe. It's on a map and I would prefer a list, but it does the job. Belfast and Copenhagen are the cheapest transatlantic in March, for instance. http://www.kayak.com/explore/ http://www.kayak.com/explore/
- geverett 13y agoSkyscanner.com serves this use case pretty well right now - you can search from SFO (or wherever you're based) to 'Everywhere'
- nagrom 13y agoAdioso (http://www.adioso.com http://www.adioso.com) seems quite good in that regard. I've had contact with one of the developers from submitting a bug report and they're very friendly and seem on the ball.
- calbear81 13y agoIf you can handle by month, you can always use Kayak Explore (kayak.com/explore)
- hcarvalhoalves 13y agoThanks a lot. I've been off the recent developments in travel sites, it's seems much better now.