Helping The Bastard Visualize His Itinerary: ITA

This past week the Bastard was planning a fucking coast-to-coast trip and the fucking options were endless. Take the northern route through Canada? The midwest route? Connect in Chicago? Connect in Detriot? Denver? The Bastard was bitching about the process when a Friend of Bastard told him about ITA Software’s Fare Shopping Engine and it’s visualization tool:

It takes the available flights and stopovers for a given range and outputs a visualization that not only allows the Bastard to quickly evaluate the flights, but more importantly, the stopovers – their relative width showing how long the Bastard has to cool his heels and suck down Tequila Boilermakers. Further, it has a column for alerts to show prop-flights, short layovers, long layovers and other alerts. It’s fucking good.

To access, click here, login as guest or make an account, input your search criteria, and then select “choose flights (graphical) from the top of the results page. You’ll be glad you did.

Lesson: The internets are a good fucking place to find new ways to save yourself some goddam time. Start with the Bastard to find the best sites.