This site doesn't load in Chrome for me (aw snap error). Is anyone else getting that?
I'm running Chrome 2 on Windows 7.
Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
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Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#12Hmm. I don't think the natural language input is a very good idea. It's very error prone and only works correctly if you actually know what language it supports. I tried it and it got confused. Also it didn't correctly recognize a three letter airport code that I used. To be frank I've found that Kayak has the best interface for doing this and there's no need to select which sites to search, etc. The interface here d…
On the one hand I agree: I'd rather it popped up while I typed "Frankfurt, Germany" to let me disambiguate HHN and FRA, rather than open 20 tabs that all said "do not service that airport". I didn't realize HHN was the wrong code until nothing was found, whereas other sites (eg Kayak) let me disambiguate immediate.
On the other hand: not using a date picker is awesome. I've been using nl date parsing on my own sites lately and it's The Best.
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#13FF3 and IE7's pop up blockers prevent access to search results. This is default browser behavior. How many people know or care about disabling pop up blocking for individual sites (or changing any defaults, for that matter)?
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#14i need tehcnical support: on firefox 3 it first blocked pop-ups, so i enabled and got a spew of opened tabs with no search results found (see my other comment). when i tried to search again ff keeps blocking the pop-ups, even though i keep enabling them. !!! nuts, i really want to buy cheap plane tickets :P i'll keep trying.
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#15If you are going to create a new site in this space it has to be at least as good as Kayak. Tripeedo fails horribly. As others have mentioned, a site that simply opens numerous windows with the results from each site is not adequate.
Tripeedo has two obvious advantages over Kayak:
(1) It can help you search discount airlines like JetBlue and Southwest.
(2) It will show you fairs that are exclusive to the airlines' websites. (I don't think I've ever run into a situation where the airline's website had a price significantly lower than what was on Kayak but I've heard rumblings that it happens.)
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#16i don't seem to get the popups :(
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#17I had a frustrating experience with the site. Took me longer to get what I wanted than if I had gone to Kayak (the market leader) or Jetblue (that normally runs my best fare).
What, if I may ask, was the vision and rationale behind this approach?
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#18I don't like the pop ups, I want comparable data not 20 different pages, all of which I have to dig through before I get my information.
This issue is magnified when I didn't get the results I wanted. "Oops, we need to know more about your trip." Now I have n tabs to close instead of one.
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#19I'd never thought someone would compete with Orbitz.
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#20Disappointing .. Doesn't really work with all the airline sites that it has on main page.