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QIXO is
an airfare search engine that
searches the data of more than 28
airline and airfare websites to
find you cheap flights to Turkey.
However,
at the moment there seems to be something
wrong with the way their
database is working: it yields some
flights
with impossible connections (arriving
at 3:30 pm and departing at 1:20
pm, for example.) In fact, these
are real connections that
entail overnight layovers of,
say, 20 to 22 hours—but
the dates given do not show this!
It may read as though both
these flights operate on the same
day, but they don't. Beware!
I've contacted QIXO to notify them
of this problem. I hope they fix
it soon.
Also, QIXO does not seem to work right
with Apple's Safari browser: I input
dates several months ahead and get
a message telling me that the system
"can't process flight times less
than 12 hours away." Huh?
So QIXO is sorta lame at the moment....
In principle, here's how it works:
put your trip dates in the
box to the right, and QIXO
will start searching for
cheap flights. You'll
see a QIXO page immediately, but
it'll seem like
nothing's happening. (You
may see a ridiculous message
saying "More results
in 0 seconds." Ignore
this message. Look for the %
bar in the upper right-hand
corner of the
page, which seems to start with "5%".)
Nothing may happen for a minute
or two—it
needs a bit of time to do the searches
on all those other airline reservations
systems. Don't worry, it's
working! After a minute or
two your computer screen
will automatically
refresh and show you some
of the results. And your screen
will refresh automatically at regular
intervals (perhaps
every 30 seconds)
thereafter with
more results, until all of the results
are shown (100%).
However, the airfare market
is like Istanbul's Grand
Bazaar: prices go up
and down, and change from shop to
shop, so if you have the time and
patience, you should also search
some of the other websites on TTP's Quite
Marvelous Airfares Page.
Among the 28 airline reservations
systems that QIXO checks is
, which seems to show the lowest fares more frequently
than most other reservations sites. More...
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