Odd fact, the flights to 5 music festivals around the world cost less than the tickets to the festivals (incl camping).
Note: This contest was hosted by us (not a customer) to showcase our experts' flight hacking skills. It's in the same vein as our previous round-the-world itinerary to 6 continents all in business class, which came to as little as $2659 http://flightfox.com/rtw
Many thanks paul. It took us a while to realize that showcasing our experts' work is the best way to get the word out. Much better than static ads, at least at this stage.
I can't wait to use this for a vacation. Are you all getting into the hotel and event booking too? I could see that making this service even more amazing.
So I have a unique situation, and I was actually considering using your site to help me solve it.
My girlfriend is flying to Prague and Rome for 2 weeks, just before our 7 year anniversary. My plan is to show up in Rome on Oct. 24, surprise her, and pop the question.
I'm trying to figure out the fastest and most cost-effective way to get to there from Toronto. The other constraint is that I'll likely be in San Francisco for Startup School on Oct. 20th.
Is it possible for me to somehow get this kind of request fulfilled?
Hope she doesn't ready HN :) Yes, we can absolutely handle that. Are you just looking for your flight, or also your gf's? If both, it's usually better to run 2 contests if the departure/arrival place is different. Either way, this is where using humans over machines excels (i.e saving the time of searching yourself and having peace of mind you're getting the best flights).
Roskilde gets my top vote. Best sound engineers of any festival I know; and just a great scene all around. Best of the best, in my humble opinion. I'm not familiar with the one in Barcelona. How does it compare?
I would like to know why humans are required to search for flights? Are there significant technical problems that one would face if he tries to write a computer program to do the same? I assume an automated search would be more thorough, and would produce better results, and would also be cheaper. In fact, services like Hipmunk could offer this kind of optimization to travellers for free.
There are some easier ways to attain a lot of FF miles. We moving to award flights next, them mileage runs, soon followed by contests to help you earn the most FF miles. Stay tuned.
Hi thurn, you can absolutely run the same contest. We just had a school contact us about running a contest to fly 50 students across the world; they'll run that themselves. If you have a particularly cool contest, let us know and we can help generate interest and maybe even run it for you as a showcase contest.
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Typo? That link says the lowest was $2,569.
My girlfriend is flying to Prague and Rome for 2 weeks, just before our 7 year anniversary. My plan is to show up in Rome on Oct. 24, surprise her, and pop the question.
I'm trying to figure out the fastest and most cost-effective way to get to there from Toronto. The other constraint is that I'll likely be in San Francisco for Startup School on Oct. 20th.
Is it possible for me to somehow get this kind of request fulfilled?
She definitely doesn't read HN. Heck, I could post it on twitter and she still wouldn't read it.
I'll see if I can put up a contest this week.
Let's see how this goes.