Great idea, with some gotchas
Five star idea with two star execution. I cant believe there arent any other "roll your own" flight finders out there that happily find connections outside airline partnership agreements. This is really handy for traveling between smaller cities that arent serviced by the big airlines. But the folks at Kiwi are playing fast and loose with the data. Heres a few examples:
1) The app thinks BVT airport is in Burlington Iowa when its actually in Burlington Vermont. (all cities in the app are identified by just the name and no state, so this could happen often and nobody would know unless you looked up the airport code somewhere else!)
2) The app identifies an airport as being in Kansas (KCK) when actually that airport is somewhere in Russia (!!!)
3) When you try to book, you can tell the app how many bags youll bring and they conveniently update the fare to include baggage fees...but those fees are different from the pricing provided directly by the airline ($27.50 instead of $25 for 1st bag with American Airlines)
4) Often a message pops up during booking saying that the airline (which one...who knows) has "just" raised the price, often by $90 or more and you are allowed to continue booking at the newly specified price or start a new search.
5) No place to enter frequent flyer card numbers.
So I am a little sad with the overall experience but I hope they will continue to improve the service.
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