From the New York Times:
SEVERAL travel sites have recently made upgrades to help put flights in context of the overall flying experience. Travelocity has been working on color-coding for nonstop (green) flights and connecting (red) flights. It also offers “fare notes” in the margins of search results announcing changes or highlighting particulars of a flight — like United’s new fee for a second checked bag or Delta’s free curbside check-in — to help travelers make informed decisions.
In a new Traveler Update section, Orbitz provides maps that show flight delays for individual airports, the pace of highway traffic near major airports and average wait times at airport security checkpoints. And Itasoftware.com has long let travelers view flights graphically to see which ones have stopovers and points out long layovers or tight connections in a “warnings” column.
Travelers already cross-reference airfare searches with information from sites like www.tsa.gov for security checkpoint wait times and Flightstats.com, which lets travelers compare the timeliness record for particular flights. But InsideTrip is the first site to find a way to pull all this data together and present it in a comprehensive way.
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