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by jgrahamc 6327 days ago
Hmm.

I don't think the natural language input is a very good idea. It's very error prone and only works correctly if you actually know what language it supports. I tried it and it got confused. Also it didn't correctly recognize a three letter airport code that I used.

To be frank I've found that Kayak has the best interface for doing this and there's no need to select which sites to search, etc. The interface here does not seem like an improvement.

And maybe it's just me but when I hear 'peedo' I think paedophile and so this company sounds like its name is 'try paedo' to me.

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On the one hand I agree: I'd rather it popped up while I typed "Frankfurt, Germany" to let me disambiguate HHN and FRA, rather than open 20 tabs that all said "do not service that airport". I didn't realize HHN was the wrong code until nothing was found, whereas other sites (eg Kayak) let me disambiguate immediate.

On the other hand: not using a date picker is awesome. I've been using nl date parsing on my own sites lately and it's The Best.

ha! I just tried to find a flight from Frankfurt to Moscow and also wasn't successful because of your software insisting on 'Frankfurt/Hahn(HHN)'. Please fix this fast! I also tried 'From Frankfurt/Main' and 'From FRA' but wasn't understood:-( Apart from that, I like the 'command line approach to finding flights a lot. Suggestion: Why not open the third party travel sites (Orbitz etc.) in a Javascript-Window (instead of a new browser window).

Then I tried to report the airport issue to you by clicking on the feedback button on the right. After entering my feedback, upon clicking on 'Submit', the feedback window showed me something like 'there was a problem sending your message...' I tried again, to no avail - sadly, the feedback form didn't tell me what went wrong or what to do next, it only offered me to add a 'sad' emotion to my message. Which wasn't of much use, because the 'problem sending the message' prevented me from showing you my sadness (Ironically, the third party company that makes your feedback system has named itself 'getsatisfaction'). Well, I closed the feedback window and found another way to post my feedback: http://getsatisfaction.com/wundrbar/topics/i_didnt_want_to_p...

I only had to create an account, submit a fake email address, enter a new password (twice) make up a new username and enter a captcha. After that, I had to enter the password again (twice), because it has to be at least 6 characters long. And, of course, enter the captcha again. After that, I was allowed to post my comment!

:-)

frankfurt/main is now the top match for 'frankfurt'. :)

the way to specify an airport if the top match is not right is just to keep typing. eg: london => london all airports (lon); london gatw => london, gatwick (lgw); lon hea => london, heathrow (lhr)

similarly: sa fr => san francisco; sa di => san diego

typing frankfurt/main didn't work because the slash was confusing the interpreter. i'm fixing that right now.

sorry you had such a hard time leaving feedback. we've been having sporadic issues with getsatisfaction lately. feel free to email any feedback directly to us at info[at]tripeedo[dot]com.

we'll also fix the frankfurt issue. thanks for the tip. :)