Clever Layover

Combine round trip airfare from two airlines to save money

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Combine round trip airfare from two airlines to save money

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Phontabulous

Love the idea! if i have checked bags then check-in and security will need to be done twice, correct? How do you plan to solve this problem in future?

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11yr ago

Teleport

@rahulc_23 don't check bags ;)

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11yr ago

Clever Layover

Maker

@rahulc_23 Yes, you would need to check bags twice currently. As we scale, we hope to get airlines to work with one another. We do not have a solution for this today.

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11yr ago

Phontabulous

@kanand88 Thanks, Kaushik. Good luck!

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11yr ago

Lola

Hunter

I'm in love with this: it's my favorite HBS project for FIELD3. Combine two different roundtrip airfares with a "clever layover" to get there more cheaply.

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11yr ago

Product Hunt

@ellenchisa nice find! I've seen so many travel-booking services but nothing like this. Very clever.

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11yr ago

Clever Layover

Maker

@ellenchisa @rrhoover Thanks for the positive feedback :) Adding one ways and a bunch of other hacks soon.

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11yr ago

How does rebooking work when the first half of a leg is canceled or delayed and makes you miss the second connecting leg which is on a separate PNR from a non-partner airline? My guess is that the flyer just "missed" their second flight since it wasn't part of a unified PNR so the airline won't rebook and the passenger is SOL. :-)

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11yr ago

Clever Layover

Maker

@davidu We recognize this issue. In the long term, we want to use this to push airlines to work together irrespective of alliances. In the short term, we advise booking an insurance to counter this. On average, we see 30% of searches show an average savings of $230. the insurance for this kind of a trip works out to ~$50. So, you could buy the insurance and still save ~$180.

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11yr ago

Airmail

Reminds me of Hipmunk. Minus the cool flying Chipmunk.

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11yr ago

Clever Layover

Maker

@zaccoffman This isn't similar to Hipmunk at all. Hipmunk still wroks only with airline alliances and doesn't find the layovers or savings we do.

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11yr ago

Airmail

@kanand88 Interesting, I'll have to compare the 2 on a few future trips. I know Hipmunk had giving me several trips before where it added a 2 hour layover to cut my trip in half.

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11yr ago

Atmosphere by kollekt.fm

One thing I really like about Google Flights is the ability to check which outbound / return dates are the cheapest (works well if you're flexible). What's your take on that - is it something you'll implement over time? I personally love long trips - so a layover on some airport where I can read a book in silence while earning the extra miles seems like a great idea! Unrelated question (hopefully somebody knows): what's the best CC to take if you want to save miles éxtra fast?

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10yr ago

this looks very cool. recently I was visiting LA. It was cheaper for me to book a ticket to Vegas via LA and just not take the LA -> Vegas step than just to have a flight to LA alone.

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11yr ago

Clever Layover

Maker

@_jacksmith While that is true, we do not skip flights (unlike Skiplagged). We get a layover where the cost of the trip when you take all trips on the itinerary is cheaper. A big reason on why we are able to do this is that we do not constrain ourselves to airline alliances. So, we are able to find the cheapest flight overall and also use low cost carriers.

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11yr ago

Clever Layover

Maker

For more information on our thought process behind this, you can refer to this Quora post: http://tinyurl.com/nf8hpsq

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11yr ago

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