Show HN: Cheaper flights when flying multiple destinations by route optimisation
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But maybe think about replacing the 4MB background video with a static image or something. It felt a bit overpowering for me (moves too fast) and it also doesn't scale right with the viewport leaving white text on a white background.
I just disabled autoplay (disable autoplay extension for chrome, media.autoplay in about:config for firefox). What a pain.
If it werent for this comment I would think it was just a very weird design of white text with a shadow on white background.
I tried : Lyon, France as Home (2017/05/02 as start date) Tokyo Narita, Japan (7 days) Osaka Kansai International, Japan (14 days) Noumea Tontouta, New Caledonia (14 days)
This told me that "Something went wrong! No valid route could be found for these destinations, please try another destination"
I added Paris, France with "0 days" as it's a typical stop when flying international from Lyon.
This gave me a result, but the first stop is Noumea and it says "$false - BOOK". The other destinations have a real price.
My route is weird though, does not seem very optimized (I fly around the world once, from France to New Caledonia and back, before going to Japan, which is on the way), but I guess that's another problem!
Screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/SGSQu
It seemed to me that it couldn't find a route from London to Khon Kaen (Khon Kaen isn't an international airport), but interpreted that as a zero cost flight. The route it gave me was Gatwick -> Khon Kaen -> Bangkok -> Singapore and the cost for the whole thing was a fraction of what it should have been.
The way to make that route work, by the way, is to go Gatwick -> Bangkok -> Khon Kaen -> Bangkok -> Singapore (or throw Chiang Mai or Hat Yai into the mix). You can only reach Khon Kaen by air through internal flights in Thailand.
berlin,3 days
boston, 3 days
shanghai, 3 days
I've booked marked it. Cool site.
Interestingly enough I just booked this trip two days ago directly through the airlines (Air Canada and Delta).
But yes you are right about the train experience in Japan! I also tried a night bus from Tokyo to Osaka once when I was a student... leave it up to the Japanese to make that a great experience as well! Recommended if you're on a tight budget.
Major kudos on implementing the AirBNB search as well!
Discover Destinations does that. You input what kind of destinations your looking for (food, hiking, museums, etc.), and it'll show you the cheapest flights.
If you put a start airport into Skyscanner, you can tell it that your destination is anywhere, but you still have to pick a date. But it's a decent way of seeing where you can fly to cheaply.
Once you pick a destination, Google Flights lets you bring up a monthly view so that you can see which days are cheapest to fly (and sort/filter by things like flight time and price).
Google Flights also has explore functionality (IIRC, red dots are airports you can reach directly, grey dots are not), but it can be a bit hit and miss.
This is a co-worker's project that seems to match what you want
Birmingham, Alabama, GB (BHX)
I just booked a multi-city international trip like this a couple days ago and did quite a bit of searching to get a conveniently timed, low cost, direct flights. I was somewhat flexible about which cities I visited also.
I've entered London Heathrow, United Kingdom as my Home, and Wroclaw, Poland as a destination, Number of days: 1, Start Date: 2017/05/02.
What am I doing wrong here?
- consider the flight times (you don't want to arrive at your next location on 23:00)
- only search continental destinations, this does not work that well for many destinations.
- consider the distance from airport to city (airport of paris is 2 hours traveling)
- have a backup plan (rental car)
That is, sometimes it's cheaper to book a flight with a connection, say LAX->ATL->MIA, and get off in ATL, than it is to pay for LAX->ATL.
I think skiplagged.com does this. Are you trying these as well?
Seriously though I can't even imagine the logistics behind that one. Even if only fit and healthy people used the service there's so much that would need accounting for - air pressure within the plane even if we ignore the whole people are jumping out of a commercial jet
* i never mentioned anything about commercial jets
Needless to say, there are extra fees for carry-on bags.
the airline then pick the landing equipment back up via skyhook or drives to pick it up.
i see white text with shadows on white background and there are three identical fields for Days, no idea what is their meaning, i guess duration of trip, but not sure why there are three of them
Will be releasing a fix for this shortly.
also does my home take into consideration nearby airports, because i was not offered options about it, being too strict about it it's not good choice if i can just take train 2-3 hours away and have much more or cheaper options and i can enter multiple home airports it should be filled in home filed before entering any text there in background as example
Something went wrong!
No valid route could be found
for these destinations, please
try another destination.EDIT: We're pushing out a fix now that should resolve this, you can now have empty fields for destinations and it'll just include the filled out ones.
As a side question, what happens if I want to start in one place, and finish somewhere else? Suppose, for example, I want Paris -> Atlanta -> Sydney -> London : is that possible?
If this works properly and well I can see that I would not only use it, but would pay money for it, but at the moment, for me, it doesn't seem to be working.
FWIW, I'm well-known in my companies for breaking anything that people think is ready to go and suitable for deployment to muggles, so these teething problems are to be expected.
Wonderful suggestion :) I'll make it so you can input a different final stop to you're starting point. We want to keep it free and potentially monetise via affiliate sales and show people how much we've saved them, perhaps some would be generous to donate 1% of the amount they saved? Who knows!
We'll definitely be fixing it up though, still a bit rough around the edges haha.
What does this do that Google Flights doesn't do?
I haven't yet seen what it is that makes this different - I feel like I'm missing something.
The video under the white text often makes it difficult to read the catchphrase. I'd suggest editing the video to reduce the brightness by 60% (No doubt others will disagree);
The text at the top does not, to me, communicate this idea that you are choosing multiple destinations, and that the site will try all the orderings to find the optimal itinerary;
It says:
Discover the cheapest route to fly for your next holiday
You are using the word "route" in a way that doesn't communicate to me the idea you've mentioned above;
It says:
If you're visiting multiple destinations it can be on average 30% cheaper to fly a specific route as opposed to others
Again, you're using the word "route" in a very odd way.
So, concrete suggestion to highlight the problem, I'd say something like:
You choose the places to visit - we'll arrange your itinerary to minimise the costs.
Good luck ...
Use case: If I am flying for a business trip to a given destination, the dates are pretty much set there. There is another place close by that I would like to visit and I don't care too much if it will be before or after the business trip, but the business trip needs to happen on selected dates.