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Volotea, the new spanish low cost airline, will start operations on 5th of April with initially 14 destinations from Venice Marco Polo Airport.

From today, all flights from the new airline will be displayed on Trabber flight search engine results.

Volotea will begin service mainly in Italy with five destinations, comprising Brindisi, Cagliari, Olbia, Palermo and Reggio Calabria; and nine other european destinations—Alicante, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Budapest, Krakow, Malaga, Porto, Thessaloniki and Santiago de Compostela.

You can find information and news about the new airline in Trabber News.

Last revision of Trabber’s flight search engine searches directly on 3 new airline websites: www.jetairfly.com, www.flyairone.com and www.blu-express.com.

Jetairfly is a Belgian airline with its headquarters in Ostend. Formerly known as TUI Airlines Belgium, it adopted its new name in November 2005. The airline’s home base is Brussels Airport, but flights also from Liege Airport, Ostend-Bruges International Airport and Brussels South Charleroi Airport.

Air One is Alitalia’s low cost carrier subsidiary headquartered in Fiumicino, Italy. The company flights to 36 destinations in Italy, Europe and North America. Air One is an Italian airline that merged with Alitalia in 2009.

Finally, we also integrate Blue Air, a low cost airline based in Bucharest, Romania. Blue Air operates mostly out of Aurel Vlaicu International Airport. It started operations in December 2004 and it is considered one of the cheapeast airlines in Europe.

Do not hesitate to contact us to suggest new airlines, hotel chains or car rental companies to be included on Trabber search engine results.

We enhance the information we display for every hotel, adding a rating based on all reviews from Trabber Hotels providers users.

Hotel ratings are displayed now next to the hotel information and it ranges from 0 to 10, being 10 the highest.

We consider that this value helps to get a better idea of the overall hotel quality as it is based on travelers opinions like you. Surely this information will ease your selection.

Additionally, based on hotel ratings we have developed an algorithm that sort result by what we call best “value for money“. This algorthim takes into account not just hotel rating but also location, category, and other parameters to create the list of results.

We have tested the algorithm in several cities and consider that it is quite accurate and reliable. However, it is always better to hear your comments to continue optimizing it.

We include now all flight fares from Virgin Atlantic website – www.virgin-atlantic.com on Trabber flight search engine’s results.

Virgin Atlantic flights already appeared on Trabber results through the different online travel agencies where we collect fares from. However, now we add the main source of information that will surely help to perform a more fair comparision for Virgin Altantic‘s flights.

Virgin Atlantic is owned by Richard Branson’s and Singapore Airlines and operates flights between the UK and major capitals in North America, Asia and Oceania.

The airline has its main bases at Gatwick and London Heathrow airports.

In this post we summarize all flight search tools that we have developed for Trabber in addition to the Flight and Flight offers search engines.

Let’s metion firstly Trabber Radar, a system that scans flight fares close to the dates selected, to suggest users the best dates to travel. We recently launched a second version, more powerful and with an improved user interface.

Another interesting tool is Price evolution, which shows in graph how the price of a flight has changed over time. This information is useful to determine the fare trend and determine whether the rate is rising, falling or stable. You can find this information in the top right side of Trabber search engine result page.

In the Flight offers search enginee we intregrated several useful tools such as the Monthly fare chart, which presents visually the days of the month in which flying is cheaper for your route. Furthermore, for searches in which no specific destination has been selected, there is Offers in a map, which shows the best deals found by Trabber users in the last days.

We hope that these tools will help you to find the best options to travel.

We are glad to present now the second version of Radar Trabber.

This new version is not just a complete redesign of the user interface, but also includes several improvements on the technology of the engine that allows Trabber Radar to collect more flight fares in close dates than before.

Regarding the user inteface, flights are displayed in a horizontal bar format to simplify the display of departure and arrival dates, but also to clearly show the total days of your travel. This information was not easily accessible in the previous table format.

Above of the flight bars, we have placed a set of controls to enable the selection of specific dates for your departure and arrival.

On this new user inteface, we also keep the old table version that is accessible through the link “See in a table”

On the other side, the updated engine provides access to additional flight information that we were not considering before. Aditionally, we have extended Trabber Radar to new airlines and now is able to collect fares on close dates for new airlines websites such as Iberia, Air France, SAS, LOT and Air Asia.

The engine improvements also benefits the quality of the fare suggestion system that is displayed on Trabber search results.

We hope you will like this new version !

We Include this time in Trabber search results, all flights offered by Canadian airline Air Transat directly on its website – http://www.airtransat.com

Air Transat, based in Montreal – Canada, serves over 60 destinations in 25 countries in America and Europe.

Air Transat is Canada’s leading holiday travel airline, carrying around 3 million passengers annually.

Since the beginning of Trabber, our main goal has been to innovate creating tools to facilitate the preparation of your trips.

This time, we present Trabber Cars in all international versions of Trabber.

Trabber Cars is a car rental vertical search engine that allows you to easily compare prices from main industry vendors.

Trabber Cars usage is simple and similar to any other Trabber product. With just a simple search, you can get a whole range of rental cars available from suppliers. To facilitate the selection, we have added tools to allow sorting and filtering the search results.

For now, this beta version compares prices offered by 6 suppliers, among which are the major car rental companies and travel agencies.

We add a new option in Trabber hotel search engine that allows to include all hostels offered by Trabber providers in your hotel search results.

To improve Trabber’s results in this type of accommodation, we have added Hostelworld as a provider. Hostelworld manages a database of more than 25,000 hotels in around 180 countries that from now on you will find in Trabber.

Note that it is always possible to display/filter other types of accommodations from the results page, simply by changing the filter “Property type:” located on the right side of the page.

You can now create your own user account in Trabber.

To create your account in Trabber you need not to register, as you can identify yourself in Trabber using your Facebook, Hotmail/Live, Google or Yahoo! account. This way you can access Trabber with just one click and need not to remember new passwords.

If you have no user on any of the above services, you can still create your local Trabber account simply by entering your email address.

The main advantages of having an Trabber user account are:

• It allows you to manage and mantain your flight alerts
• Store your private list of flights – ‘My shortlist’
• Access to all your previous searches

We hope you enjoy this new feature and as always, we are happy to receive your suggestions on any new improvements that we should develop to serve you better.