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by waitwhat 4886 days ago
Some more feedback: If I do a search for direct, one-way flights from Tallinn to anywhere next month, the experience is awful.

"anywhere" appears to search a list of cities in sequence, not in parallel.

The top city on the list is Beijing (I doubt Tallinn-Beijing has ever existed or ever will); Dubai, Shanghai and Incheon are also in the first ten. Combine this with the server speed, and you have me staring at a throbber for far, far too long for searches that I know won't succeed and should have been trivially filtered out.

If I repeat the search, the same 48 cities are shown in the same order. Please stop trying to get me to go to Beijing. Consider a longer list, randomising the order and searching in parallel.

Your search results show no direct flights from Tallinn to London or Paris next month. This appears to miss results from RyanAir, EasyJet and Estonian Air. (Of these, your coverage page only claims to support EasyJet.)

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On a side note, why would you buy a one-way ticket? Every time I've ever checked it's cheaper to buy a two-way ticket and then just not use the return flight.
That has not been my experience at all. I just checked a flight from Gothenburg to Amsterdam leaving in three weeks time(a random example), and a one-way ticket was almost exactly half the price of a return flight. In fact it's been a long time since I've seen too significant a discount for a return flight vs two single flights.
Oh ok. Well, that's what I would expect but when I left the US for good one-way tickets were about double two-way.
For the cheapo European carriers, you are generally billed for each leg seperately, and there is no discount for buying a return ticket.

But the real reason for looking for a one-way ticket was simply an attempt to speed up the awful search times.