fly.co.uk live are we missing any merchants

[dougs]

Fly.co.uk : The cheap flights search engine

Merchants care to contact me

Doug

[bills2big.com]

I did a flight search and it took over a couple of minutes with still no results, so I closed it down - is this the finished site?

[dougs]

Obviously not

Can you post th details of what you did please

Doug

[drivetowin]

Tried it this morning - I think I've found two problems

1 - sometimes the drop down for airports does not appear - in which case whatever you have entered for the destination it ignores and finds you flights from your departure airport to Newark New York

2. If you put in a route which does not exist (I tried Southampton to Bournemouth) - it does not time out but just keeps looking for flights ad-inifinitum.

3. From a customer design perspective I would put the logos of who you search (and maybe some sample 'bargain' fares) on the homepage - at the moment while I agree less is more I think you've carried it a bit too much towards the less.....

[dougs]

Ta

Boys will get looking on Monday...on a positive note has anyone found anything cheap? We reckon on many major routes we have more reach than Travel supermarket as we have more partners and more coming.

Doug

[bills2big.com]

I just searched for flights in June from Doncaster to Faro, and it took that long to load that I gave up.

[tbp]

I did a search from Gatwick to Ibiza, and it came up with:

Showing results for flights from London Gatwick Airport to Newark Liberty Intl Airport or New York J F Kennedy Intl Airport or New York La Guardia Airport

[dougs]

Ah..................Ben yours mate

Doug

[Gavinio]

Betatesters4u.com! For some reason, Sydney defaults as Sydney - Canada. Could lead to some interesting mistakes!

Reminds me of the person I met in Guatemala - they'd meant to go on holiday from Austria to Antigua, but ended up in Antigua in Guatemala! Only about a thousand miles away, but a world apart!

As another feature, I love those options that let you see what the cheap flights are on days either side so you can shuffle the dates around - I think it's really important to have that.

[dougs]

Thanks all......keep playing as we keep bit by bit fixing things.....

[ben100]

Thanks all for feedback

A fix is on the bug tracker for the search not ending - in these cases, there is not flight route or availability; we just need to kill the threads and give a message.

Logos on homepage is definatly on my list but i excluded them because i couldn't get them to look right before the schedueled release

Also some useful usability notes i'm picking up here - drop downs not showing will be fixed, also we are playing with the cached data for speed. But i have noticed the dest. airport defaulting to JFK out of cache. But i think that is that the location from the drop down wasn't correctly selected. A good fix can be put in place for that.


Thanks again,

[bills2big.com]

Originally Posted by ben100