On Aug 27, 2010, at 1:33 AM, Callum Finlayson wrote:
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Michael J McCafferty <mike@m5computersecurity.com> wrote:
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.
Made all the more agonizing when you arrive in NY and customs express interest in your decission to stop over south of the border for a couple of hours.
Except neither flight would involve customs in NY. In the first case, you would clear customs in Newark. In the second, you would clear customs in Atlanta.
As others have said -- agony's a nice idea, but the real value gets added when you can weight the elements according to your personal preferences (and the site can then capture how people choose to weight various inconveniences in order to (i) improve their own algorithms, and (ii) sell on to other interested parties).
I suspect it might not be that hard for them to add and would be worthy of requesting as a feature. Owen
C