Flight plans
Posted at 3:04pm on Tuesday, February 21st, 2006Over at TechCrunch there’s a fascinating preview of FlySpy, a rather neat application that allows you to better understand and manage the airline’s rather murky capacity management processes - meaning you can find the cheapest day, time and destination for your intended journey in one place, rather than ludicrous numbers of round trips between websites and brokers. Very nice.
What interested me more though was the frequent reference in the comments to “the same service already existing in Europe”. Apparently Sky Scanner does the same thing…
Sad to say it doesn’t. Not only does it not do what FlySpy claims to do, it does the little it does do extraordinarily slowly and with absolutely no thought to UI or usability. Poo. Which is a shame, because I can see FlySpy being very US-centric for a while yet (and I was looking for cheap tickets to Oslo as well).
