How Much Is That Seat? TripAdvisor Breaks It Down Joe Sharky - The New York Times
go to original February 10, 2014

The online travel company TripAdvisor has introduced an ambitious redesign of its Flights search feature that will provide detailed information globally on any given flight’s price — including added charges for options like extra legroom — as well as on in-flight amenities like the availability of Wi-Fi and in-seat power ports.

Underscoring the rapid growth in international travel and the demand for easily accessible comparison-shopping information, the feature will be localized for 31 countries and in 17 languages.

“Not all flights are the same; not all airlines are the same,” Bryan Saltzburg, the general manager for new initiatives at TripAdvisor, told me in a phone conversation Sunday morning.

Mr. Saltzburg’s understatement underlines the complexity in choices and options that travelers now encounter, as airlines in the United States and around the world refine a successful business model based on charging customers what they choose to pay for service, comfort and convenience.
Chi Birmingham

TripAdvisor describes its redesign as a move to simplify what can be an enormously complicated shopping experience for those who book their own flights, as a growing number of business travelers do. A given search result will show all available flights, with fare comparisons and a breakdown, by flight segment, of amenities and services on a particular airplane.

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