AirWander

2017年1月8日

8月的首席执行官在黑客和释放锁硬件之前准备好让知道,由于我工作的疲惫,时常,我仍然可以偶然发现的服务使我想到:“最后!我已经等待多年的存在!“我非常高兴地告诉你所有关于AirWander,网站建立漫游的旅行迷喜欢我;最后一个————使您可以轻松地搜索,和书,跨国与持续多日的中转航班。这是无可否认的利基市场。大多数人想要旅行目的地。但真正itchy-footed,像我一样,爱的概念在国家支出三天X在去目的地的路上,也许三天国家Y回来的路上。唉,我可以告诉你从痛苦的经验,大多数在线预订网站在这种事情是可怕的;他们在理论上提供预订“制定”,但他们的搜索算法要么翻身和死之前返回任何结果,或者他们给你可笑过高与拜占庭路线安排预订里程跑才会爱。AirWander明显更好。 It’s not perfect, of course. Hey, it just launched last month , at TechCrunch Disrupt London. But I can assure you, as an inveterate traveler (I think I’ve been to ~90 nations now? Though as the numbers mount up you realize that both “been to” and “nation” have a surprising number of edge cases) and frequent airfare hunter, they are definitely a step in the right direction from anything that previously existed. Consider: I’m loosely plotting a trip to Japan sometime this spring. On a whim, I told AirWander to find me an itinerary with a 3-day stopover in Jakarta on the way there, and 3 more days in Hanoi on the way back. It promptly fetched up multiple itineraries for a decent price ($1800. ) It wasn’t perfect — for one thing, between time zones, the International Date Line, and connecting flights, I’d actually get only about 36 hours in Jakarta — but it’s a far better aspirational airfare browsing experience than its competitors, which generally insist on knowing precisely when and where you want to fly if you’re planning anything more complex than a round-trip, and then make you tap and type for what feels like ages. Admittedly, If you do know your exact dates and destinations, I’d still recommend my usual go-to, Kayak. But if you’re just looking for an interesting place, maybe any interesting place, to spend a little while on the way to or from your final destination, AirWander, as its name promises, already seems to be the site to use. And best of all, it’s so young that I feel confident that it will only get better. I look forward to a world where people use it to wander more, just for the sake of wanderlust. (As a semi-irrelevant personal aside; I’ve been columnizing here for more than five years, and I get something like a dozen PR pitches a day, but this is only the second time I have ever written a piece as a direct result of a cold email pitch. I suppose the moral is: don’t lose all hope, PR people, but don’t harbor much, either. ) 0