Find cheap, one-way flights within a departure date range ✈️
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Hans Desjarlais

FlightList - Find cheap, one-way flights within a departure date range ✈️

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Discover alternate routes & cheap, one-way flights within a departure date range. Made for digital nomads, remote workers & flexible travelers.

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Hans Desjarlais
Maker
Hello PH, I built my first side-project, Flightlist, for 2 reasons: 1. After my travels in Europe in 2017 I wanted a simpler, minimalist flight booking app tailored to my travel style. 2. To learn Javascript When I travel I always buy one-way flights and I'm not looking to depart on a specific day, but within a date range. And of course, I look for the best price. Even though sites like Skyscanner and Google Flights are quite popular and easy to use, I have to enter a specific departure date and then use the Calendar to find other dates which may have cheaper prices. I just want to enter an origin, destination, date range and get a list of flights, without the frills or ads. So I built Flightlist and in the process I learned Javascript. Something I had been meaning to do for several years. I'm looking for your feedback, do you find it useful? Would you use it? What features or datapoints would you like to see? I'd also like to thank a few people, because with out their feedback or resources I wouldn't of been able to make Flightlist. They are: @kiwicom247 & @oliverdlouhy - for the open API & great documentation @robhope - for the constructive feedback @jonathan_trev - for the geolocation data & Jonathan Dahl for the beautiful animated gif https://dribbble.com/shots/20135...
Razvan Gabriel
@ismaelyws Congrats on the launch! Enjoying the clean UI. Are you looking to expand the database with more flights & locations?
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
Hi @razgraf. Yes, depending on how things go I would like to add Skyscanner API or maybe others I am considering. Thx for the feedback.
Tudor Baidoc
@ismaelyws Love this, and yes, I know the struggle with Skyscanner, but now, no more :) Congrats and good luck! Maybe in the future, a tracker for flights/prices?
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@baidoct Thanks Tudor :) You mean a notification like Skyscanner has when a price drops/changes?
Jonathan
@ismaelyws Congrats on getting to #1! :) Woot Woot!
Jedrzej Urbanski
It looks like a great product. But when I search for the flight from Wrocław - Poland to Barcelona - Spain, the first result is a flight with two stops - one in Miami US. I prefer use azair.eu for EU flights, even though it doesn't look fancy.
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@jedrzejurbanski Yes, I am using the Kiwi/Skypicker API so I am dependent on their flights data. From what I heard they are working on improving that. I would like to add more API's like Skyscanner & others in the future. But I agree, valid point.
Jedrzej Urbanski
@ismaelyws azair has its own API 😉
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@jedrzejurbanski Ohhhh ok, good to know. Thanks :)
Jamie Gordon
@jedrzejurbanski @ismaelyws you should use KYAK as it tends to favour those in the UK or Europe for cheaper flights (more than 1 indirect flight included)
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@jedrzejurbanski @jamie_ross interesting, ok. I'll check out the Kayak API then. Thanks for the feedback :)
Tom Hopcraft
Nice, I too am in the exact same position with regards to travelling and booking flights. I've not used it extensively yet, but my first comment is you need to group airports. So Vancouver, has 3, but I cannot just click Vancouver (All). The same for London UK, London is usually grouped with 5 airports.
Tom Hopcraft
Definitely need a sort for travel time too. You're definitely on to something with this though.
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@chewx you're absolutely right this is my most requested feature, so it's the next thing I will be adding. Currently working on it.
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@chewx Just to clarify, you want to sort by asc/dsc for travel time?
Tom Hopcraft
@ismaelyws Well, personally I'd want to sort by shortest travel time first, not sure if there would ever be a use-case for longest travel time first, haha.
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@chewx Ok that's what I thought. Allright, I added a option for Travel Time in the Sort filter. Can you try that out and let me know what you think?
Giampaolo Falqui
What's the difference between this and Kiwi?
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@gfalqui It's using the Kiwi API as you may have surmised, I just present the data in a different way. I basically built it for myself after my experience traveling in Europe last year. I only bought one-way flights and I wasn't set on a departure date, I was flexible based on the price of the flight or the route it would take. So this is my idea of how I would want to search flights. Just a simple search and list the results. No frills, no extras.
Alok Saboo
Any chance you could add a filter for airlines? I would like to get rid of Spirit and Frontier from the results.
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@truvoip Last week I was looking at whether I should code it in and I decided to wait until someone asked for it. Now someone did. Yes I'll add it to my to-do list. Thanks for the feedback Alok.
Alok Saboo
@ismaelyws Excellent...thanks!
Marc Snyder
Very cool. I'd like to be able to sort by length of trip. Would that be possible? #MadeInMontréal :-)
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@marcsnyder Salut Marc :) Use the Travel Time filter. If you don't think it's clear enough let me know. Or do you mean sort asc/dsc for the trip duration (travel time)?
Marc Snyder
@ismaelyws Merci de ta réponse :-) but, yes, I meant sort asc/dsc by travel time.
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@marcsnyder ok, yeah good idea. I'll add it to my to-do list. Thanks for the feedback Marc, if you see anything else that could be improved let me know.
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@marcsnyder Salut Marc, I added Travel Time as an option in the Sort filter. Is that what you had in mind? Can you try it out and let me know what you think?
Marc Snyder
@ismaelyws Perfect!
gemme
Interesting and nicely worked out. A couple of quick thoughts that would make it even better. 1. Make the destination more prominent in the results. Either a bigger font size or highlight it in a different way. 2. I'd love to see the option to search by temperature. For example only show me places which are over 25 degrees (based on normal average temperatures) celcius at the selected time period. 3. Add some more currencies Great start though. Keep it going
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@gemme Great feedback, thank you :) Which currencies would you like to see?
gemme
@ismaelyws Welcome:) Some of the currencies that would be nice to add are the: Chinese Yuan Japanese Yen Thai Baht Cheers
gemme
@ismaelyws Another suggestion would be to be able to set Domestic flights or International flights. For example, I live in Shanghai and like to find flights out of China but currently, many of the first results are domestic flights.
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@gemme Yes I will be adding new currencies very soon. I'll post an update once I do.
Jack Yeh
Looks great! Is there a way to aggregate all the airports in a city, for instance, London, rather than search them one by one?
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@jckyeh Yes, someone else also mentioned that. On my to-do list. I just hadn't gotten that far yet haha. But yes, definitely a good idea. Thanks for the feedback Jack :)
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@jckyeh Hi Jack, I have added options to select Metropolitan Area's for cities. You now have an option to select all airports for London. Give it a try and let me know what you think. I have also added this option to 250+ other cities.
Vance Bernstein
Cool alternative to Google Flight
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@vancebernstein Thanks Vance :)
Bobby Marli
nice idea!
Hans Desjarlais
Maker
@bobbymarli Thanks Bobby, glad you like it :)
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