Dohop.com delivers a flight planner for Iceland Express
The birth of the low cost flight connection
Reykjavik, 29 March 2006. The low-cost airline Iceland Express has licensed and launched a customized version of the dohop.com flight planner for its website. The flight planner helps travelers find connecting flights to hundreds of destinations in addition to the ten destinations already served by Iceland Express.
“We see the dohop solution as an interesting ‘low-fat’ alternative to the legacy airlines’ bulky integrated booking systems and we think it’s very much in line with the low-cost concept,” says Iceland Express CEO Birgir Jónsson. “Even though we don’t as yet have direct flights to Iceland from, say, France, Italy or Poland, we can help our customers in these countries find practical connecting flights to airports that we do serve,” says Jónsson.
Despite making the planner available on its website, Iceland Express remains a strictly ‘point to point’ airline. Users are warned that Iceland Express does not guarantee transfer of passengers or their baggage and Iceland Express does not sell tickets with other airlines. Neither Iceland Express nor dohop.com are responsible for connections that don’t work out as planned.
The flight planner includes information for more than 660 airlines worldwide and delivers results in seconds. It finds all possible flight connections that begin or end with an Iceland Express flight.
The Flight Planner Features:
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Instant filtering and sorting by time of departure/arrival, duration, etc.
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Trace the flight route on a world map.
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Show ticket prices in any world currency.
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Provides links to hundreds of airline websites and leading online travel agents.
“This is the birth of the low-cost flight connection a decentralized and efficient flight connection for both the industry and travelers,” said Frosti Sigurjonsson, General Manager of dohop.com. “The traveler who is willing to take control and responsibility for his flight connections can save on travel time and fares.”
Low-cost airlines provide close to 30% of flights worldwide but they do not sell or facilitate connecting flights. Their route networks have until now operated in total isolation from each other as well as traditional airline networks. The founders of dohop.com felt that there was an opportunity to aggregate all airlines in one planner for improved routing efficiency. The dohop.com flight planner mixes both low-cost airlines as well as other airlines to find the best flight connections possible. As the results often involve low-cost flights dohop.com often finds much cheaper flight combinations than can be found elsewhere.
With the old style “all inclusive” flight connection, the passenger’s luggage is checked through to the final destination and in the case of missed flights a refund or hotel stay may be available. This obviously costs the airlines money and is reflected in higher ticket prices. The new “low-cost connection” carries no such frills and no extra cost.
The dohop.com flight planner is currently being considered for use by a major low-cost airline as well as a major online travel portal.
The Iceland Express planner can be found at: www.icelandexpress.com/flightplanner
About Iceland Express
Iceland Express is an Icelandic low-cost airline with direct flights to Reykjavik from destinations in the UK, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Spain. The company is owned by Icelandic investment company Fons.
