This time we integrate to Trabber’s flight search engine, the Portuguese flag carrier TAP Portugal – www.flytap.com.

TAP Portugal is the leading carrier in Portugal and member of Star Alliance, alliance led by airlines as important as Continental Airlines and Lufthansa among many others.

With its hub in Lisbon, the company currently flies to 58 intercontinental destinations throughout 27 countries in Africa and North and South America.

We integrate all flight information, collected by the lastest engine enhancement – Trabber Radar, into the Monthly view graph available on Trabber’s Flight Offers. This integration allows Trabber to have much more data to display monthly fare charts for the main routes.

As a next step, we are designing an algorithm to integrate the same flight information currently collected by Trabber Radar into Flight Offers’ results and the Email alert system.

We are confident that this new development will be very useful for travelers with flexible dates.

We finally add to all international Trabber sites the first version of Trabber Radar. Trabber Radar is a new recommendation system that suggests flights on close dates when a lower price is detected.

This new feature is based on the lastest version of Trabber engine, capable of scanning more flight information without a performance impact.

The system operation is quite simple: in case Trabber Radar detects a cheaper flight on a close date than the one selected by the user, it displays a warning message showing the most conviniente date to travel. Trabber Radar also permits users to obtain a matrix with prices for other dates.

The version that we present today scans flights for a subset (16) of the total websites that Trabber uses on a regular search. However, it covers most of the major routes requested by travelers in Europe.

Trabber Radar surely will be of great value to identified the best options to travel.

In our goal to improve Trabber flight results, we have enhanced Trabber engine capabilities to allow the system to collect flight prices offered directly from Czech Airlines website – www.csa.cz.

The airline, which main airport is Ruzyně Airport in Prague, operates scheduled services to 69 destinations in 41 countries.

Czech Airlines is a member of the SkyTeam alliance, which includes Air France-KLM, Delta and Continental, among other airlines.

We have modified Trabber flight search engine results page to include the total duration of flights. From now, next to the number of scales, you will find this information that can help in some cases your flight selection.

Keep into account that when sorting the results by the number of scales, the total duration of flights will also be considered.

We are currently working to add a new filter (slider) to facilitate the filtering of flights by this criteria, that should be available soon.

We integrate in Trabber’s results all flight from Irish flag carrier website Aer Lingus – www.aerlingus.com.

Although Aer Lingus flights were already shown on Trabber’s results provided by the online travel agencies where we search, this new integration will help users to better compare prices.

Aer Lingus has codeshare agreements with airlines such as United, British Airways and KLM.

We have added a link on Trabber Italia, Deutschland and France search flights result page to facilitate users to create Alerts for the selected route.

Thus, simply by clicking on “Subscribe to offers …” in the upper right side of the flights result page, you can create an Alert that will warn you by email when a flight is found on that route as lower price than usual. To create a flight Alert you just need to enter your email and select the frequency of the mail delivery.

You can create more complex flights Alerts with conditions such as leave date, return date, minimum stay, etc… through Trabber Flight Offers section (IT, DE and FR) by using the filters at the top of the page before clicking on the “Receive these offers by email” link.

Remember that additionally there is a RSS channel that can be used to obtain the same information.

Trabber presents a new feature for its hotels search engine. By clicking on “Map of displayed hotels“, Trabber will locate the results on the map of the selected destination.

To obtain additional information on a hotel you only need to click on the marker that indicates the position.

You can still use Trabber´s filtering and sorting functionallity that will be automatically fed to the map

Several airlines, not just low cost carriers, are charging an extra fee for every bag checked. To provide a more realistic comparison between prices offered by low cost and traditional airlines, we have added on Trabber’s latest update a control to select the number of bags you plan to travel with.

On Trabber’s flight results you will find on the right side, a drop-down list that allows selecting the number of bags. After the selection is made, all prices will be updated automatically taking into account this fee. Note that this drop-down list will only appear when Trabber software detects that on your search there is at least an airline that might apply the luggage fee.

Trabber´s new update integrates Google Maps to show the location and detailed information of airports in each city. Therefore, just beside the airport filter on the right side of search results, there is now 2 links (“map”), that will display on a map origin or destination airports respectively.

Clicking on any airports will show the distance to the city centre, the time zone, and a link to the airport’s website (available for some airports)