On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 22:46 -0700, JC Dill wrote:
William Herrin wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:36 PM, <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
sorry for the off topic post - but since a few of us travel about some... http://www.hipmunk.com/
Cool link! I'm actually shopping for a flight tonight, this has already come in quite handy.
How do they quantify agony? Also it's not clear if the sort is ascending or descending...
What is Agony, and why would I want to sort by it? Agony is our way of sorting flights to take into account price, duration, and number of stops. There's more to a flight than its price, so we provide this sort to give you better all-around results.
Very cool indeed. I'd think that to some the travel time would be weighed much more heavily than the price of the ticket. I hate to fly for work (having been injured in a plane crash) and a bit nervous anyway, but if I am flying for work then then a few hundred bucks is trivial compared to what is riding on the deal. It might be neat of you could adjust the weight of the components of "agony". For kicks, I looked at the most agonizing trip options... I chose a trip from San Diego to New York City... the worst were: 1) Tijuana to Mexico City, 16hr hour layover, then to Newark NJ and cost over $1k. 2) Tijuana to Guadalajara for an 8hr layover, then to Atlanta for a 1.5hr layover to New York LGA. Holy crappy flights Batman! -- ************************************************************ Michael J. McCafferty Principal M5 Hosting http://www.m5hosting.com You can have your own custom Dedicated Server up and running today ! RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and more ************************************************************