New hotel search engine finds best offers

Posted by Frosti Sigurjonsson, CEO - 20/01/09 at 06:01:40 pm

The Dohop team has just released its latest product: A hotel meta search engine.

The new hotel search engine is easy to use and searches multiple hotel reservation sites for hotels and best offers.  Prices are shown with taxes and fees included and links are provided to the booking sites where a traveler can book his choice directly.

 

Hotel search results can be sorted by price, star rating or distance from centre or conveniently plotted on a citymap. 

Results can also be refined by price range, amenities offered, stars, or text in name or street address.

To try it now, follow this link.

SAS – The Friendly Airline

Posted by Marcus - 14/01/09 at 11:01:50 am

The Scandinavian personality is often described as introvert and quiet. Well, SAS is certainly challenging stereotypes. The airline is now double dating at least Lufthansa AND KLM-Air France. 

We just found the SAS profile on match.com:

NordicWings-48

Punctual and responsible Airline looking for partner to coordinate services and share synergies.

Me: Likes to travel to 152 destinations. Currently reziding in Scandinavia. Have airplanes. 

You: Strong financial backing, good with union workers, interested in synergies.

Reply to “Buy-me-I’m-Your’s“

The Alitalia Garage Sale – Part 2

Posted by Marcus - 13/01/09 at 11:01:54 am

Alitalia isn’t just selling miniature pieces of contemporary art, they’re also selling 25% of the actual company to KLM-Air France.

The Alitalia Garage Sale

Posted by Marcus - 12/01/09 at 06:01:05 pm

If you like modern art, but have limited wall space at home – fear not, Alitalia is your friend. 

From the 1960’s, the Italian carrier bought specially produced works of art, specifically requested to be small enough to fit in suitable areas inside an aircraft. The idea was they were going to enrich the passenger experience when flying and boost customer satisfaction.

Now 163 of them are going to be auctioned out.  This might be your opportunity to own a small piece of art and airline history.

Other airlines, lacking Alitalias vision, seem to have focused their attention on baggage handling, timely departures and other, less artsy forms of customer satisfaction. One word: Liquidation Boring!

Predictions for 2009

Posted by Marcus - 09/01/09 at 02:01:54 pm

Jared Blank at OTR shares some thoughts about 2009 here.

Among his visions of the future is a 2009 where services launch and stop faster than before, meaning airlines will be willing/forced to test new services and schedules, and go with what works.

(Being completely biased of course) we are convinced that the more volatile the market becomes, the more important it is to have access to an intelligent travel search engine (that would be dohop.com) that can pull updated route maps from all carriers, and quickly present options to you as a traveler, options that may have been completely different only last week, and no longer valid again the next.

The same goes for finding the best fares, as new services often come hand in hand with aggressive campaigns and introductory offers. Old truths about how best to travel from A-B are becoming obsolete faster than you can keep up with, without a service like dohop.com to help.

Rise of the Phoenix – An airline reborn

Posted by Marcus - 07/01/09 at 04:01:02 pm

Earlier today at a press conference in Copenhagen, the new low cost carrier Cimber Sterling announced its aggressive plans for 20 European destinations.

Cimber has previously acquired 2 Boeing 737 from Sterling, and now an additional six(!) will be added.

Starting January 14, Cimber Sterling will fly Copenhagen-London (Gatwick) daily. In February Copenhagen-Nice and Copenhagen-Malaga will be added.

Denmark’s second largest airport, Billund, will see two new routes added in February-March, with Cimber Sterling flights to both Rome and Malaga.

BA expanding in India, wants to buy GoAir

Posted by Marcus - 07/01/09 at 11:01:44 am

According to ET, British Airways is looking to buy 25% of Indian low-cost carrier GoAir.

BA has shown interest in code-share with GoAir before, and a search on dohop.com reveals a number of interesting connections with the two carriers, e.g. Heathrow – Mumbai – Goa

Get Thumped on your holiday – fly Thomas Cook

Posted by Marcus - 06/01/09 at 10:01:01 am

If you have never been thumped on a flight before, but want to try it out, your best bet might be Thomas Cook.

Nothing says holiday like 40 or so of your fellow passengers smoking and drinking and generally trashing the plane you are stuck in with them. One lady who herself did not have the opportunity of experience thumping, but witnessed it occurring, ended up hiding in the galley for the remainder of the flight.

The rowdy crowd, allegedly from Ireland, was traveling from Gatwick to Havana. For almost certainly thump-free travel options, try searching on dohop.com

Tiger Airways drops Korea

Posted by Marcus - 04/01/09 at 09:01:57 pm

Reuters reports that due to the slowing economy,Singapore based low cost carrier Tiger Airways, has canceled plans to set up a low cost airline in Korea.

Singapore Airlines owns 49% of Tiger Airways.

Air New Zealand Boeing 747 likes fruit

Posted by Marcus - 04/01/09 at 09:01:04 pm

More specifically, it likes the oil extracted from the seeds of the Jathropa plant.
The Air New Zealand Jumbo Jet was munching on a 50-50 mix of regular jet fuel and Jathropa oil during a 2 hour long flight in December 2008, which perhaps makes the test more interesting than the Virgin Atlantic test in February 2008, where only 1 out of 4 engines on a 747 was fed a 20% babassu/coconut oil mix.

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