Hipmunk Further Reduces Agony For Users With Flexible Travel Dates

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Does anyone know of a similarly good service which works in Europe? I normally use skyscanner.net, but while it does the job, it's one of those headache-inducing websites the articles talks about.

It's a huge opportunity waiting to happen. If you add Easyjet and the other discount airlines, and then add trains in for close cities, it would be a huge hit.

For example, I live in Nice and wanted to go to Malta. The ticket was 200 Euros. But I found I could take a train for two hours and go from Marseille via RyanAir for 20 euros.

The same is true for Last Minute deals. Czechs will spend twice as much for, say, a week in Egypt as a German in a city two hours away by train (Prague - Dresden).

So true. I needed to go from the Netherlands to Gothenburg, which would be ~200 from Amsterdam. By crossing the border with Germany, taking a Ryanair flight and then a train, I got this down to ~100.

Someone, please build this!

EDIT: And don't forget to add coaches. Whereas they're not that popular, they're dirt cheap.

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