<<Age : Beta site launched in January 2005 and official site launched in April. Market Focus: Flight connections with low-cost airlines in Europe. The next step is to include all airlines, and a hotel search engine is under development. By early next year dohop.com will cover the full range of travel services, promises Frosti Sigurjonsson, company general manager. Data Facts: Preferred method is a direct connection to an airline?s reservation system, but the site mostly uses customized robots to scan for price (only once a user has narrowed down his choice), says Sigurjonsson. Dohop.com welcomes all airlines that wish to be included in its search results free of charge. Ranking of natural search results is not biased on sponsorships. Industry Role: Travel search engines make it easier for vendors to find customers and vice versa, details Sigurjonsson.>> <<While thriving LCCs may drive online growth in many markets, the converse might also be true. At dohop.com, the company is publicizing the number of cities ? at least 200 ? that can be reached from Reykjavik by flying LCCs. ?The true power of low-cost networks is becoming visible to users via our? travel search engine, Sigurjonsson says.>> David R <damiross3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: The reason it defaults to Euros is because it is an Icelandic company. David R home.comcast.net/~damiross/books.html www.sequoians.com -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael C. Berch Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 21:55 To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: dohop.com It's similar in principle to the site I've been using for quite a while as an airfare meta-search engine, Mobissimo. (http:// www.mobissimo.com). The Dohop interface seems clunkier, at least in my browser (Firefox). Plus there are some annoyances, like quoting a flight from a non-Eurozone origin to a non-Eurozone destination in Euros. (SFO-LHR on UA). Mobissimo also claims to search 139 sites, and seems to include all sorts of airlines including the LCCs, plus it normalizes fare quotes to USD (great for Americans, dunno if there are options for displaying in other currencies). So for now I'll stick with Mobissimo, which I usually don't bother with for domestic travel, but it saved me a bunch of money on a flight from London to Zurich last year by finding a cheap flight on an airline I hadn't previously heard of (Helvetic). -- Michael C. Berch mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.