Travel Thursday: Search by "Agony"

A new search engine for flights callled Hipmunk is online now.

According to Lifehacker,

Web site Hipmunk re-imagines flight search, translating the information you're most interested in to a user-friendly chart of possible flights.

Most popular flight search engines are cluttered, full of text, and difficult to understand at a glance. Hipmunk takes the most important flight information you'd get at any flight search engine—travel time, layovers, price—and organizes it into an actually useful visual (rather than all-text) interface. (It's sort of like a Gantt chart for flights.) Click on any flight for a closer look at the full details.

You can sort results by price, number of stops, departure/arrival time, and duration, but you also get an extra search category called agony, a combined function of price, duration, and number of stops—basically the total agony you'll experience in your butt and your savings.

I love the idea of searching by "agony," and will definitely use this website. On the downside, though, they don't seem to include flights for American Airlines, which is often my preferred airline.