Just as an experiment, I tried looking for a trip on hipmunk that I have booked for 10 days from now. Prices start arund $1000 per leg, about 250% higher than what I paid (coincidentally for the same flight).
Slight tangent: You can get these flights (dublin-tel aviv) for around $600-$900 round trip if you're reasonably early and flexible. Why does hipmunk even offer me a $7500 leg that takes 24hr and fly through Toronto? Shouldn't their agony detector realize that no sane person would want this? Isn't good UI also removing useless information? If they want to demonstrate how thorough they are (also important) aren't there easier ways?
I don't mean to be picking on hipmunk. They're obviously dedicated to good user experience and they do a great job of presenting the large amount of information one needs to process in order to book a flight. If any Hipmunk people are reading please take any snarkiness as a cry for help. I really do want a better experience booking flights I'm looking to you guys for them.
Just as an experiment, I tried looking for a trip on hipmunk that I have booked for 10 days from now. Prices start arund $1000 per leg, about 250% higher than what I paid (coincidentally for the same flight).
That's a terrible experiment, fares almost always go up as you get closer to the departure date. If you want to do that, check the same thing on the airline's own site.
In my experience hipmunk isn't more expensive than any other site. In fact, every site will quote you the same darn price for the same darn flight, because airline fares are a lot more formalized than most people seem to be assuming.
Slight tangent: You can get these flights (dublin-tel aviv) for around $600-$900 round trip if you're reasonably early and flexible. Why does hipmunk even offer me a $7500 leg that takes 24hr and fly through Toronto? Shouldn't their agony detector realize that no sane person would want this? Isn't good UI also removing useless information? If they want to demonstrate how thorough they are (also important) aren't there easier ways?
I don't mean to be picking on hipmunk. They're obviously dedicated to good user experience and they do a great job of presenting the large amount of information one needs to process in order to book a flight. If any Hipmunk people are reading please take any snarkiness as a cry for help. I really do want a better experience booking flights I'm looking to you guys for them.