Case – Flight Search & Booking Engine
Client:
§ Movolo is the advanced Flight Search
and Booking Engine on the Internet for Western and Eastern European travelers.
It provides the travelers with the largest and the most convenient choice to
travel by air between 2 cities for individual, groups and corporate users.
§ Movolo is the only search engine
that is capable of searching, storing, sharing, comparing and selling
combinations of traditional and low cost airlines, increasing dramatically the
number of flight options available to the users in terms of price, convenience
and number of reachable destinations.
Business
Needs:
§ The aviation industry has been hit
by rising fuel costs and competition. The challenge was to develop an online
flight search and booking engine that provides the travelers with the most
convenient price, stopovers to travel between two or more locations.
§ An application required to support
different kinds of users including individuals, groups and corporates. It also
required different kind of user interfaces for basic/advanced users and other
for dummies. The application also required that each user should have its own
itinerary in order to complete the purchasing in one unique transaction.
Solution:
§ We developed and provided Movolo
with a very flexible, scalable and robust application. The solution addresses
the complex functionality of caching for fast search. We provided a tiered
architecture that runs easily in a clustered environment.
§ The application features include
fast search engine, simple and clear user interface, support for multiple legs
for low costs and mix with GDS, support for credit card payments, suggestion
for best dates, other origin / destination airports and alternative routes. It
also supports for additional costs like insurance, fares etc.
§ Integration with Partners Web
Services API for flight search.
§ The application supports Google Map
interface, multilingual support and mobile compatibility.
Benefits:
§ The flexible & scalable nature
of the application has reaped high benefits to our client. They are now able to
receive high volume of traffic on the website.
§ Movolo’s revenues have grown
immensely as the application is getting popular within the European region. The
offshore development and support ensured that the ROI was met within the first
8 months.
§ Post development, We provided a
dedicated offshore development and maintenance team to Movolo to support the
web application. This team has been able
to provide high quality maintenance services to Movolo at much reduced cost.
