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# Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Playing Travel Agent

The other night I was playing travel agent and realized what a pain in the neck it is to use the travel sites out there. Most have lamo date/time pickers and require many mouse clicks to simply search for a flight.

Well, Aditya sent me a MagicWord for SlickRun that accomplishes this task very elegantly. All you need to do is type:

fly sfo to jfk march 15 - 20

And you get a ton of search results.

Just create a MagicWord called fly and set the url to:

http://www.mobissimo.com/onebox_process_air.php?onebox=$I$

Love it.

 

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:05:49 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I've always liked sidestep.com as it aggregates search results from most of the online travel sites, including jetblue.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:03:03 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Did you try farechase.yahoo.com? It's very different from travel.yahoo.com. It even features autocompletion of airport names. So it saves the second screen that always asks me if I mean San Jose in California or Costa Rica.
mtm
Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:30:29 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
thanks for pointing about our one box functionality. just to clarify, we are the only meta-search that offers one-box and we search many more sites than sidestep and farechase. the complete list is here:

http://www.mobissimo.com/faq.php#suppliers

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