Quick Review of Travel/Ticketing Websites in India
Travelocity.com
My rating: 2 out of 5
See that screen grab above? Yeah. That’s what you’re supposed to use to pick a ‘From’ and ‘To’. See how the ‘One-way’ and ‘Return’ checking is done. Instead of asking you upfront, they ask you at the end! This is lazy design.
Makemytrip.com
My rating: 2.5 out of 5
Easy to search for flights. But text is difficult to read because the text and BG are not contrasting. But if you are a South Indian and you have an initial for a last name OR if you have two words in your first name (like Suman Kumar), you can’t use this site. See screen grabs.
See? They want my last name to be at least two characters long!
And, they won’t let me write my first as I always have written in. They want it to be SUMANKUMAR. And not SUMAN KUMAR. Hey! It is my name!
Cleartrip.com
My rating: 3 out of 5
Simple and elegant (as compared to the others I mean). No pull-down menus. Just simple text boxes to pick your ‘From’ and ‘To’. The use of Web 2.0 technology… I like them! But, for the position and color of that ‘Search flights’ button. It should have been ‘inside’ instead of jumping out… and white text of reddish-orange? And, most irritating is gray text on gray BG in the search results. Guys! come on!
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#3 written by Jesskarr (2 years ago)
I loved Pushkar but before the Camel fair. It is so beautiful and relaxing being there.
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I adore mine, there free shipping and return policy is just the icing on the cake. -
#5 written by K Hari (12 months ago)
Did a quick check, the screenshot of travelocity is for package tours, perhaps it is meant to be round the trip. Their normal flight booking asks it upfront. What I found intriguing was the default travel dates; they are two weeks from the present!
In the case of cleartrip.com the grayed out text is secondary to the primary tasks, I agree that is not legible but perhaps it is so because the user could remain focused on the primary task. Personally I feel it adds to giving it the clear uncluttered look.
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how about http://flyuhome.com