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by scoot 1535 days ago
> You can select any airport or the city - which should grab them all

Not everyone lives equidistant to all airports. Heathrow and Gatwick are close to me; Luton, Stansted and City are not. I'd want to see options for both of the former. Loved HipMunk, so glad you are back (why was it killed off to begin with?), but don't understand why it's a browser extension.

Edit: seems you can only select one airport in any case, not a city. (But you knew that, right?)

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Okay, I see the issue, it describes London as "City of London", which is not the same thing. That's a bug. (The City of London is a square mile near the centre of London [0].)

It's also frustrating not being able to see the departure/arrival airports at a glance so that I can ignore the airports that are not close to me (given that you can't be selective about which airports to include). It shows connecting airports, so why not departure and arrival?

For Paris to Tenerife, for which there's (surprisingly) no direct flight, it's missing Easyjet via London. For options with one connection, some list the two airlines by name, others say "multiple airlines", when there are only two, so you have to invoke the tooltip to discover them.

I don't appear to be able to select a currency to display prices in.

It seems there's still some work to do on UI/UX, so the announcement here might have been a bit premature! Hope you have better luck with this than HipMunk, but for now it's not especially useful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London

Our latest release should have more clear language on airports and 'All London Area Airports' as opposed to 'City of London Airports'. The point about multiple airlines should also be addressed.

Your point about at a glance determination of the departure/arrival airport is really good. I expect to have a UX enhancement for that next week. Currency and manually selecting multiple airports are still a fair ways off.