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RIP to the best flight hack in America This math was just ridiculous: ABE → EWR → Tokyo: $811 round trip EWR → Tokyo: $2,225 round trip Savings: $1,414 That's $707/hour for a 2 hour drive. But if you post about it and 90,000 people see it on LinkedIn, the fun must eventually come to an end. United is discontinuing bus service from EWR & ABE (Allentown, PA) on September 1, 2025. Coincidence? Maybe. That's not gonna stop us from finding cheap routes. There's always another hack for us to find at Place2Place.ai.

A 15-second coding error just cost us $1,000. Place2Place.ai is supposed to check rideshare costs from all airports within 3 hours of you. Instead, we were checking all airports everytime. Globally. The Math That Hurt: For a Louisville address, we're calculating Ubers to LAX, JFK, Miami, Paris, etc. With 300 daily active users, the Google Maps API calls were costing us ~$100/day. That's $3,000/month. For a pre-revenue startup. Jason Silva fixed it at 6:29am this morning. Changed "all airports" to "within 250km." #Failure #Oops #WeNeedtoMakeRevenueSoonToPayThis

It's literally cheaper to fly to London than Atlanta. I'm not joking. This is insane. Delta wants $534 to fly me to Atlanta. But London? $491. That's a 10-hour international flight costing LESS than a 1.5 hour domestic one. The Math That Makes No Sense: • SDF (Louisville) → ATL: 321 miles, $534 • SDF → LHR: 3,035 miles, $491 You're paying 166¢ per mile to Atlanta. But only 16¢ per mile to London. That's 10x more expensive per mile 😲 Yes, it breaks airline rules to book SDF → LHR and hop off at ATL. But the pricing algorithms are also broken. Place2Place.ai uses that to your advantage to try to find you the best flight in under a minute. Because sometimes the best route isn't the obvious one.

Not every search on Place2Place saves you $1,000. Sometimes the cheapest option is exactly what Google Flights shows you. Last week, I searched Louisville to Boston. Google Flights: $184 on Southwest Place2Place: $184 on Southwest No magic savings. No hidden airports. But here's why that's valuable. Before Place2Place, I'd spend 45 minutes checking: • Cincinnati flights + Uber costs • Providence options • Hartford, Manchester, Worcester All that napkin math. All that second-guessing. Now, one search tells me if there's a better option. The Kentucky Derby trip that saved us $3,200? You can't expect that every time. Think of Place2Place.ai like insurance: You don't expect to use it every time. You just want to know it's there. Peace of mind has value too.

Growing up in Louisville, I assumed small-city flights were always expensive. Wrong. Louisville → Tokyo: $8,340 Chicago → Tokyo: $8,417 Here's the kicker: The Louisville flight connects through... Chicago. Same plane. Same route. $87 cheaper. The airline pricing algorithm 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀. From my experience, they price based on what they think you'll pay. I found this as we're building out a business & first class filter into Place2Place.ai. We're on a mission to find you the perfect flight for you in under a minute.

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