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Can flight search be improved? Three innovative sites that say yes

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33 pointsjaf12duke14 comments

Great! Now, I'm a salesman, and I'm trying to plan a trip. I need to find the shortest route to visit each city...

Flight search improvements, step 1: Allow time ranges to cross midnight.

I shouldn't have to do 4 searches for "A flight that leaves sometime Friday night or Saturday morning, and returns Sunday night or Monday morning."

Sure. I've yet to find a site that allows me to say, I'm in Amsterdam and want to fly somewhere for 7 days in October for less than 500 Euro, show me some options and a facet navigation to drill down further.

It's my most frequent use case, and I strongly suspect I'm not alone.

More people need to know about kayak.com/explore - it does exactly what you want - here's your exact query:

http://www.kayak.com/explore/#/AMS?a=any&d=any&fb=60...

Have you come across Skyscanner (www.skyscanner.net)? I'm an engineer there, so am a little biased - but this is exactly the type of question we try to solve. Would be interested to hear if you have any feedback/queries!

i.e. http://www.skyscanner.net/flights-from/ams/1011/1011

It's excellent, and I'm going to use it from now on. I was hoping somebody turning up saying "we've solved this" :)

I have been using http://www.bing.com/travel/ (was Farecast before MS acquired it) for a while now and it has easily saved me a couple thousand dollars on airline tickets. Highly recommend it although yapta does look interesting.

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"Can X be improved?" Anyone who says no to that question is being silly. Can't damn near everything be improved in some way or another? Especially something so universally hated as airline tickets...

The bicycle?

It could have a compartment for beef jerky.

Score! Conversation over.

The bicycle has been constantly improved since its invention and will continue to be improved for a long, long time. For example, engineers and scientists are able to create new alloys that are lighter and stronger than previous iterations.

Some Yale engineering students created a "spoke-less" bicycle for a class recently. I thought it was pretty cool.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/b2g91/spokeless_...

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