[tomhoward]

Adioso does this. Inside the company we actually call it the long-distance relationship query.

http://adioso.com/us/nyc-to-omaha-nebraska-in-march-any-frid...

From your suggested query, we're just missing time-of-day and wider timeframes than just a month, but we're close.

The reason it's not a simple MySQL query is that most flight search sites don't have all the flights from all the airlines on all the dates pre-cached in a local database.

[deanclatworthy]

I really really like the fact you are using natural language to try and simplify these kinds of queries. However, your service appears to be quite buggy.

http://adioso.com/fi/helsinki-fi-to-birmingham-uk-between-ma...

- If there is a 1 stop filter, it covers the top of the page - On this search result, I cannot advance more than one calendar month. - Where do I sort by the cheapest flight?

Are you only writing queries on top of expedia? If not why does it say "Loading expedia calendar" at the top.

[desireco42]

This is actually more interesting then hipmunk, but kind of not as easy to use as their service. Maybe you could just do a simple page like they did to query your service. And filter god-damn Spirit, they should not be called an airline!

[tomhoward]

How about this?

http://adioso.com/us/san-francisco-to-domestic-return-5-to-1...

http://adioso.com/us/san-francisco-to-international-return-5...

http://adioso.com/us/san-francisco-to-western-europe-return-...

Also, you can filter out any airline - just hover over the icon and click "Hide [airline name] flights".

[desireco42]

Yeah, that's it, thanks for demonstration :)

[wasd]

This is awesome and incredible when I hit "watch price" it says:

Ensure this value has at most 100 characters (it has 103).

My email is not very long... its 8 characters + @gmail.com

EDIT: I like to fly back to see my family in Los Angeles and I was finding across the board better prices at hipmunk.

[tomhoward]

Thanks for pointing this out.

The value-too-long error was actually relating to the search query; a silly bug we've never noticed before.

Regarding fares - we're at the mercy of the agencies and airlines whose inventory we can access, and sometimes it will be the cheapest and sometimes it won't, but ultimately we're trying to establish connections with enough agencies/suppliers that wherever the cheapest fare happens to be, you can find it via our site. It's a big job, but we're getting there.