Travelwhere claims to be the first travel planning website in the UK “to use Google mapping embedded with a visual flight search and online booking service”.

Published: 01 May 2009

Travelwhere claims to be the first travel planning website in the UK “to use Google mapping embedded with a visual flight search and online booking service”.

FlightMaps combine geographical airport routes display with flight search functionality to check availability and prices from scheduled, no frills and charter flight airlines.

Ian Champness, the company’s founder, said, “Most web based flight search systems let you enter any outbound airport from the UK to anywhere overseas without validating whether any airlines actually fly on those routes.”

“This can be frustrating and irritating for the consumer, when X seconds later the flight search results come back to tell the user there are no flights. Worse still, most do not then tell you there are no flights on the route, which can waste even more time if you have re-chosen on another date.”

“We only show valid routes on our FlightMaps,” added Champness.

The launch roll-out features 11 European and Mediterranean leisure travel destination countries where the site is showing more than 140 routes from 31 UK airports.

In its next release, the company will add another 24 destination countries and it is also working on a white label version of Travelwhere’s FlightMaps feature for third-party web publications.

FlightMaps are currently featuring UK airports to airports in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Canary Isles & Malta.

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