AirWander

2017年1月8日

8月的首席執行官在黑客和釋放鎖硬件之前準備好讓知道,由於我工作的疲憊,時常,我仍然可以偶然發現的服務使我想到:“最後!我已經等待多年的存在!“我非常高興地告訴你所有關於AirWander,網站建立漫遊的旅行迷喜歡我;最後一個————使您可以輕鬆地搜索,和書,跨國與持續多日的中轉航班。這是無可否認的利基市場。大多數人想要旅行目的地。但真正itchy-footed,像我一樣,愛的概念在國家支出三天X在去目的地的路上,也許三天國家Y回來的路上。唉,我可以告訴你從痛苦的經驗,大多數在線預訂網站在這種事情是可怕的;他們在理論上提供預訂“製定”,但他們的搜索算法要麼翻身和死之前返回任何結果,或者他們給你可笑過高與拜占庭路線安排預訂裏程跑才會愛。AirWander明顯更好。 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