Flight-Search Tool Adioso To Facebook Users: Fly To Your Friends
In a unique take on Facebook travel applications, Fly to Your Friends from flight-search tool Adioso allows users to select friends they wish to visit and sends them email alerts when prices to those friends’ destinations are at their lowest.
In a unique take on Facebook travel applications, Fly to Your Friends from flight-search tool Adioso allows users to select friends they wish to visit and sends them email alerts when prices to those friends’ destinations are at their lowest.
Fly to Your Friends users can customize settings, such as setting price caps, or specifying relational data, such as “flights to see friends in San Francisco in April are now $100 cheaper today than yesterday.” The default settings are weekends (Friday through Sunday) for friends in the same country, and one week for friends in other countries.
Y Combinator-funded Adioso pointed out that Facebook does not currently provide views of users’ friends grouped by city, adding that the “most basic strength” of Fly to Your Friends is its ability to reveal the real costs associated with visiting far-flung friends.
The company added in a release announcing the rollout of Fly to Your Friends:
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