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Hi, I'm the founder and editor of Travel and Time. An aeronautical engineer with close to two decades in aviation, I build the site’s flight, distance, and trip-planning tools myself and check every figure before it goes live. I write from Kolkata, India.

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19d ago

Stop Jumping Between Travel Calculators: 15 Tools in One Place

Hi everyone

While building travel websites, I noticed something frustrating:

Travelers often need multiple calculators just to answer basic planning questions.

You might calculate a distance on one site, estimate fuel costs on another, check flight time somewhere else, then search for layover advice, airport information, time zones, and trip costs in completely different places.

19d ago

Hi PH! I'm Building 15 Free Travel Planning Tools

Hi everyone

I'm Kutubuddin, founder of Travel & Time.

Over the past few years I've been building travel websites and learning a lot about how people actually plan trips. One thing I kept noticing was that travelers spend a surprising amount of time searching for answers to practical questions:

How long is the flight?
Is driving cheaper than flying?
What's the real trip cost?
Which airport should I use?
Is my layover long enough?
How much jet lag should I expect?

Every AI travel tool stops halfway. Does anyone else find this frustrating?

I have a question for you all. Every AI travel tool I have tried recently does the exact same thing: you ask an AI chat for ideas, you map it out on a visual trip planner, and then it completely leaves you to go and book it all yourself.

You end up copying the hotel name into one booking site, searching for the flight on another, and checking activities in a completely different tab.

Basically, you are still doing the boring part manually. The AI did the fun part and handed you the homework.

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