Re: sort by agony

2010-08-27 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Marshall Eubanks wrote: > A _really_ intelligent airline scheduling system would (IMHO) be > able to offer you options like > > "there is a direct flight Pittsburgh -> Kansas City, and from there it > is a 2 hour drive to Columbia, so that will save you 5 hours travel time" That's not an airlin

Re: sort by agony

2010-08-27 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Callum Finlayson wrote: 1) Tijuana to Mexico City, 16hr hour layover, then to Newark NJ and cost over $1k. 2) Tijuana to Guadalajara for an 8hr layover, then to Atlanta for a 1.5hr layover to New York LGA. Made all the more agonizing when you arrive in NY and customs expr

Re: sort by agony

2010-08-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:32:17 EDT, Marshall Eubanks said: > A _really_ intelligent airline scheduling system would (IMHO) be able to > offer you options like > > "there is a direct flight Pittsburgh -> Kansas City, and from there it > is a 2 hour drive to Columbia, so that will save you 5 hours t

RE: sort by agony

2010-08-27 Thread Kain, Becki (B.)
My favorite is Detroit to Chicago, via ATL! -Original Message- From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:t...@americafree.tv] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:32 AM To: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: sort by agony On Aug 27, 2010, at 10:08 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote

Re: sort by agony

2010-08-27 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Aug 27, 2010, at 10:08 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:25:43 PDT, Michael J McCafferty said: > >> 2) Tijuana to Guadalajara for an 8hr layover, then to Atlanta for a >> 1.5hr layover to New York LGA. > > I once got booked Roanoke-Pittsburgh-Chicago-St Louis-Columb

Re: sort by agony

2010-08-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:25:43 PDT, Michael J McCafferty said: > 2) Tijuana to Guadalajara for an 8hr layover, then to Atlanta for a > 1.5hr layover to New York LGA. I once got booked Roanoke-Pittsburgh-Chicago-St Louis-Columbia MO. All layovers *short* enough to induce "run through the airport" pa

Re: sort by agony

2010-08-27 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Aug 27, 2010, at 6:30 AM, Andrew Kirch wrote: > On 8/27/2010 4:33 AM, Callum Finlayson wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Michael J McCafferty >> wrote: >>> For kicks, I looked at the most agonizing trip options... I chose a trip >>> from San Diego to New York City... the worst were:

Re: sort by agony

2010-08-27 Thread Scott Brim
On 08/27/2010 01:46 EDT, JC Dill wrote: > What is Agony, and why would I want to sort by it? > Agony is our way of sorting flights to take into account price, > duration, and number of stops. There's more to a flight than its price, > so we provide this sort to give you better all-around results.

Re: sort by agony

2010-08-27 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 27, 2010, at 1:33 AM, Callum Finlayson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Michael J McCafferty > wrote: >> For kicks, I looked at the most agonizing trip options... I chose a trip >> from San Diego to New York City... the worst were: >> >> 1) Tijuana to Mexico City, 16hr hour layo

Re: sort by agony

2010-08-27 Thread Andrew Kirch
On 8/27/2010 4:33 AM, Callum Finlayson wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Michael J McCafferty wrote: For kicks, I looked at the most agonizing trip options... I chose a trip from San Diego to New York City... the worst were: 1) Tijuana to Mexico City, 16hr hour layover, then to Newark

Re: sort by agony

2010-08-27 Thread Callum Finlayson
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Michael J McCafferty wrote: > For kicks, I looked at the most agonizing trip options... I chose a trip > from San Diego to New York City... the worst were: > > 1) Tijuana to Mexico City, 16hr hour layover, then to Newark NJ and cost > over $1k. > > 2) Tijuana to Gu

Re: sort by agony

2010-08-27 Thread Michael J McCafferty
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 22:46 -0700, JC Dill wrote: > William Herrin wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:36 PM, wrote: > > > >> sorry for the off topic post - but since a few of us travel about some... > >> http://www.hipmunk.com/ > >> > > Cool link! I'm actually shopping for a flight to

Re: sort by agony

2010-08-26 Thread JC Dill
William Herrin wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:36 PM, wrote: sorry for the off topic post - but since a few of us travel about some... http://www.hipmunk.com/ Cool link! I'm actually shopping for a flight tonight, this has already come in quite handy. How do they quantify agon

Re: sort by agony

2010-08-26 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:36 PM, wrote: > sorry for the off topic post - but since a few of us travel about some... > http://www.hipmunk.com/ How do they quantify agony? Also it's not clear if the sort is ascending or descending... -Bill -- William D. Herrin her...@dirtside.c