On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 22:46 -0700, JC Dill wrote: > William Herrin wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:36 PM, <bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote: > > > >> sorry for the off topic post - but since a few of us travel about some... > >> http://www.hipmunk.com/ > >> > > Cool link! I'm actually shopping for a flight tonight, this has already > come in quite handy. > > > > > How do they quantify agony? Also it's not clear if the sort is > > ascending or descending... > > http://www.hipmunk.com/faq > > What is Agony, and why would I want to sort by it? > Agony is our way of sorting flights to take into account price, > duration, and number of stops. There's more to a flight than its price, > so we provide this sort to give you better all-around results. >
Very cool indeed. I'd think that to some the travel time would be weighed much more heavily than the price of the ticket. I hate to fly for work (having been injured in a plane crash) and a bit nervous anyway, but if I am flying for work then then a few hundred bucks is trivial compared to what is riding on the deal. It might be neat of you could adjust the weight of the components of "agony". For kicks, I looked at the most agonizing trip options... I chose a trip from San Diego to New York City... the worst were: 1) Tijuana to Mexico City, 16hr hour layover, then to Newark NJ and cost over $1k. 2) Tijuana to Guadalajara for an 8hr layover, then to Atlanta for a 1.5hr layover to New York LGA. Holy crappy flights Batman! -- ************************************************************ Michael J. McCafferty Principal M5 Hosting http://www.m5hosting.com You can have your own custom Dedicated Server up and running today ! RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and more ************************************************************
