Good news, fellow travelrs – we got another iPhone app in the App Store!
cheapEscape, simply put, finds the cheapest flights out of ANY airport. Simply put an airport into the box, and cheapEscape tells you the most affordable airfare from that airport. If you don’t know your airport code, simply start typing the city it’s in, and it will come up!
I’m really excited about this app – I think it provides an incredibly valuable resource for impulse travelers. I may be alone here, but I’ve felt on numerous occasions that I would like to just jump on a plane to someplace without going broke — cheapEscape makes it easy! So without further ado, the tour! The initial screen just has the logo for cheapEscape, as well as the logos for techTravelr and inZania.
Waiting a few seconds brings us to the home page. This page gives you information about the app and how it works:
Clicking on the black input box allows you to select the airport you will be flying out of. One of my favorite features is similar to what he have in our Airfare app – the auto-suggest airport feature. Simply type in the first couple of characters, and a nice box pops up suggesting an airport. You can type either city name or airport code (e.g. ‘Dallas’ or ‘DF’) to bring it up. This is way nicer than having to go through a separate page to find your airport.
After you select your airport, a list of locations comes up with the lowest-price fare in the button.
After selecting one of those locations, you are brought to another results listing, this time showing all the results (sorted by price) for whichever location you chose.
Simply select the one you are after, and a nice dialog pops up, which prompts you to select either emailing the link to someone (so you can open it with your computer for booking purposes) or to open it with mobile safari on the iPhone.
Selecting the email option allows you to add your (or someone elses) email, who will then receive a very nicely formatted HTML (if the client supports it) or text (if the client doesn’t support HTML) email with the link.
So that’s it – please feel free to ask any questions you may have in the comments, or if you have a feature suggestion or something, just shout it out!