Monday, November 17, 2008

New flight results display launched in Amadeus Agency Internet Engine (e-Power)

Amadeus has recently launched the new layout of the flight results in the e-Power Internet Booking Engine. The new feature is in beta-testing on Paravion website and more customers will follow soon.

It’s a fact that consumers will always want a simple and quick tool to help them find the proper travel services. This enhancement will allow the users to narrow the search results through intuitive filters and pick-up the right flight recommendation from the list.

The new display includes:

Combined filters

- number of stops;

- multiple airline-selection tool;

- outbound / inbound airports;

- outbound / return departure times filters;

- price range sliding bar.

flight-filters

All the filters are very fast as they are updating on the client side without refreshing the page.

Even the user is scrolling vertically through the flight recommendations, the results filter box is always kept at the eyes level in order to ease the filtering of the various options.

Fare matrix view

- displays a nice summary table showing fares by number of stops and airline

- one can also sort the results by Price, Duration and Outbound departure time

fare-matrix-view

Quick search form

It allows the user to change the current flight search directly from the results page without going back to the detailed search form.

Additionally, the quick search form is keeping the previous search data.

quick-search-form

One fare to many flights display

The previous version of the flight search results was quite limited having in view that the user was not able to select a specific flight schedule for the lowest price. All the flight recommendations were offered as such, starting from the lowest fare.

search-results

The new layout is grouping several flight schedules for the same fare thus offering the user the possibility to select the right flight times.