In my previous post I talked about a layover finder tool. Basically a tool that let’s you find cheaper flights by finding a city to have a multiple day layover in. Now I will try to actually build it. It shouldn’t be that hard right? After doing just a little bit of research, I decided to use the Amadeus api. Why? Because you need to register as a partner to use the skyscanner api, and I’m too lazy to scrape google flights manually. ...
Airlines are weird. You would expect that a direct flight should generally be cheaper than one with a layover, especially if you want to go to the city of the layover. This is not the case. I had been thinkign about a trip to China for the last year. Usually flying to the city you want to go to is not the cheapest option. For example a direct flight from Budapest to Shenzhen is more expensive than a flight from Budapest to Xi’an with a Shenzhen layover. Even if you are boarding the same plane. You can just buy the layover ticket and act like you missed your transfer. This is called skiplagging and airlines don’t like it. There is a website called skiplagged that searches for those flights with the layover in the city you want. They get sued quite often apparently. ...