Low Cost Airline Guide Launches New Route Map Tool
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The Low Cost Airline Guide has introduced a highly intuitive new route map tool enabling holiday planners to select two points of interest on an interactive map before being provided with low cost travel options for that specific route.
The new route map tool will cover routes throughout the UK and Europe with more and more routes being added regularly.
Having researched the normal user experience with general flight planners that are available on most travel websites, the Low Cost Airline Guide decided upon a visually interactive approach. Rather than selecting the starting and ending point of a flight using a drop-down menu, the New Route Map Tool provides virtual thumbnails of each European city with available routes between them on the map itself. Upon selecting one of the thumbnails all of the available destinations from that city light up in green. The visitor only has to select one of the destinations and all available low cost flight options from a number of budget airlines are displayed in an unobtrusive pop-up.
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The reasoning behind the new interactive service is to make the low cost flight comparison process easier to use and more in tune with the experience travellers and tourists enjoy in terms of using maps to plan journeys. The use of origins and destinations overlaid onto a European map was made possible by the OpenLayers map data library and is set to make the low cost flight route planning experience efficient and fast. Mapping data is provided by OpenStreetMap. Visitors do not have to leave the page to see the number of flight operators and agents offering flights to and from the selected locations.
The new Route Map Tool located at http://www.low-cost-airline-guide.com/en/airline-route-map.htm is an innovative and novel way of comparing low cost flights between European cities. It is compatible with most of the latest browser versions such as Firefox, IE and Chrome with the option of converting the entire process into a conventional flight search experience with drop-down menus if required.
The interactive route map allows visitors to quickly see all of the possible route options and destinations from their departing city on one screen. It is only when the decision on a destination has been made that any further action needs to be taken which would involve a simple click. This would then reveal the flight options including links to low cost flight prices from selected operators. The route map further populates itself over time as visitors can suggest new routes which can be included in the route overlay function after being cross checked by a specialist team and after competitive low cost flight options are agreed upon with providers.
Where ever in Europe a traveller’s journey takes them, the new Route Map Tool from the Low Cost Airline Guide is an invaluable asset in the budget airline finder stage of holiday planning.
Having researched the normal user experience with general flight planners that are available on most travel websites, the Low Cost Airline Guide decided upon a visually interactive approach. Rather than selecting the starting and ending point of a flight using a drop-down menu, the New Route Map Tool provides virtual thumbnails of each European city with available routes between them on the map itself. Upon selecting one of the thumbnails all of the available destinations from that city light up in green. The visitor only has to select one of the destinations and all available low cost flight options from a number of budget airlines are displayed in an unobtrusive pop-up.
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route map tool[/caption]The reasoning behind the new interactive service is to make the low cost flight comparison process easier to use and more in tune with the experience travellers and tourists enjoy in terms of using maps to plan journeys. The use of origins and destinations overlaid onto a European map was made possible by the OpenLayers map data library and is set to make the low cost flight route planning experience efficient and fast. Mapping data is provided by OpenStreetMap. Visitors do not have to leave the page to see the number of flight operators and agents offering flights to and from the selected locations.
The new Route Map Tool located at http://www.low-cost-airline-
The interactive route map allows visitors to quickly see all of the possible route options and destinations from their departing city on one screen. It is only when the decision on a destination has been made that any further action needs to be taken which would involve a simple click. This would then reveal the flight options including links to low cost flight prices from selected operators. The route map further populates itself over time as visitors can suggest new routes which can be included in the route overlay function after being cross checked by a specialist team and after competitive low cost flight options are agreed upon with providers.
Where ever in Europe a traveller’s journey takes them, the new Route Map Tool from the Low Cost Airline Guide is an invaluable asset in the budget airline finder stage of holiday planning.
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