> I wish I had an assistant who could do the research, find the flights, and book it for me. Never used it, but isn’t that the value proposition of https://flightfox.com/? - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Maybe take a look at Flightfox https://flightfox.com - smart people who know a lot about travel hacking can do this for you. Source: about 2 years ago

Seems they will charge a subscription to access this - at first thought I wondered if this is the best option, and not just charge a per-leg fee like https://flightfox.com (who do concierge travel services and I love them) but I suppose, if you get the flight schedule you want, many people will instead jump and book direct with the airline. This can be good, if the flight aggregator is a behemoth and will not help... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

In 2020 I had booked several international flights for my team, all using a travel agency that has served me well for year. Within weeks after it was clear we needed to cancel everything, I had full refunds. I cannot stress enough, for business travel it's just so much easier. I use https://flightfox.com. They have never once asked me to promote them - I just really love this company. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Looks good! I may sign up. Interestingly, I had a brief look for open source alternatives and found that KDE Itinerary[0] may do a similar thing, and that the same code has been re-used in a Nextcloud Mail extension[1]. I don't use either so haven't been able to test directly yet. But I did use a CLI tool based on the same KDE code[2] and while it doesn't output iCal it does seem to correctly extract the details... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago