nigelloring
Mar 5, 09, 10:59 pm
Don't you hate it when you go to a site to book a flight to London, you enter "LON", and it says "Sorry, did you mean Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, City, London in someplace in Canada, London someplace in some country you've never heard of, or all the London airports in the UK?"
Well of course I meant "any of the London airports in the UK". That's why I used that code! Isn't that what "LON" means? Sheesh.
obscure2k
Mar 5, 09, 11:08 pm
Moving this to the FT Online Booking Forum..
Obscure2k
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mikew99
Mar 6, 09, 12:29 am
Many travel sights are so poorly designed, I wonder whether those who create them have actually tried to use them for their own travel! It would be far more time-efficient to assume that those who enter "LON" are going to London, U.K. For the 0.003% who aren't, a Google-esque link such as "Did you mean: New London, Wisconsin?" can provide these oh-so-critical alternatives.
Equally irritating are those sites which replace the unique airport code you enter ("SFO") with a generic city name ("San Francisco") so that when you repeat the search, it searches on the replacement text instead, matches a bunch of airports around the globe, and asks you to select from a list of highly sought-after destinations such as "San Francisco, Venezuela". :confused: