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Adioso (YC W'09) does this too - See, for example: http://adioso.com/au/syd-to-anywhere-under-aud350.html http://adioso.com/us/jfk-to-anywhere-under-aud350.html
http://adioso.com/se/stockholm-to-beach.html
One thing I would love to see is adding larger/fuzzier destination areas such as "the tropics", "the carribean", "the mediterranean", "Africa", "South America", or "Mexico".
do they list the airlines somewhere? they dont seem to be listing ryanair for example.
That's a good thing :-) More seriously, I would expect RyanAir charges a hefty fee to third parties who want access to their API, just like they change much higher fees to passengers who use a credit card than other airlines. EDIT: Atually RyanAir is there (London -> Knock)
for example: LBC is only listed with two possible destinations but there are at least 6.
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I think he means it would be useful when used for a geographically distributed group. You could find the cheapest place for a reunion based on total cost of airfares, and split the cost evenly.
Sure, just so long as it doesn't tell us all to vacation in Frankfurt airport;) To put it another way: The results for this kind of query are often going to be the big travel hubs. These may not always be the kind of destination that your users want. neat idea, anyway.
(from UK)
We built a similar proof of concept just this weekend, at London Startup Weekend. http://london.startupweekend.org/ It doesn't contain any real information, and is targeted at people who want to take holidays, instead of just flights, but is the same concept. It'll also do some analysis of your facebook profile to automatically sort results so you instantly get relevant places to go. It's still purely a proof of conc…
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Yea but dont rely on the data that is displayed, i just checked out 5 flights and the flights listed there were not even close to what i found on the website itself. But otherwise definitely damn cool
that's because they show the cheapest round-trip someone else has found previously
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I think he means it would be useful when used for a geographically distributed group. You could find the cheapest place for a reunion based on total cost of airfares, and split the cost evenly.
noodle, this is a great idea, don't give this up just because there's another competitor in town. Please ping me if you are interested in pursuing this further. I can link you up to startup that could definitely make use of this to compliment their trip planning service. bowei [ a t ] cardmunch. c o m
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Their database only contains cached results from previous searches. Kayak doesn't store the entire population of flights themselves - they forward users' queries onto a 3rd party flight inventory provider (ITA Software), then cache the results to power services like these. This means that results are likely to be current and complete on popular routes, but far less so on the long tail.
If I had to guess, they probably cache as aggressively as their contract with ITA allows because Kayak gets charged per search by ITA. *edit: From the two ITA contract that I know/have heard about anyways.