What's new on iXiGO?

Whew ! If you were wondering what us iXiGems have been upto, your wait is finally over.
iXiGO hotel search has arrived. Continuing our pathbreaking innovations in comprehensiveness and speed, iXiGO has launched India's biggest hotel search engine, aggregating over 4000 hotels from over 30 hotel booking sites in India and abroad, including budget hotels and hostels that can be booked in real-time. Our hotel search packs some powerful features never seen before on hotel search sites. For example:

1) You've been pulling out your hair over painfully slow hotel search results? iXiGO's new hyperthreaded search results delivery ensures a faster, smoother hotel search experience.

2) Ever felt irritated by multiple pop up windows opened by other travel portals? On iXiGO, you can view details, pictures, maps, prices for hotels seamlessly, without opening a new window.

3) How many times did you want to find a particular brand of hotel within results or look at hotels in the vicinity of your conference? iXiGO launches the world's first freeword text search within the hotel results, allowing you to narrow down by locality or name of the hotel.

We look forward to your comments and suggestions as usual, and hope you love our hotel search, just like you loved our flight search.

Happy stays,
The iXiGO team

We thought the time is right for adding a section to our site where the next big ideas from iXiGO will take shape.

As a part of this section, we are pleased to launch iXiGO's Mozilla Plugin, iGoogle Gadget, Yahoo! Widget and Search Box.

Happy watching !

You asked for it - We gave it to you. For those of you who have international credit cards and are sick and tired of figuring out which airline sites accept them and which don't, iXiGO shows a new icon in the airline filters that shows you which airlines support international credit cards for bookings.

So now, if you have a international card, just make sure you look out for this icon in the filters.

Happy watching !

Heck ! We now have a zillion searches happening every week, and fellow iXiGOers are finding some really great deals everytime they search. So, why shouldn't we all know about them ?

We invented the box office to show you the great deals iXiGOers are finding every moment of the day. Browse upto fifty lowest fares other iXiGOers found, see the time when they found them, and if you are lucky, in one click you might catch the show on-time too.

Happy watching !

Online travel agents are travel portals that sell airline tickets on their own site, mostly with added markup or fees, and rarely enough, at discounted prices.

If you are still opening 3 browser windows and comparing iXiGO results with those of your favourite online travel agents, iXiGO makes the task a whole lot easier for you. Just check the boxes against those travel sites and launch the search. The search results on those sites will open in a new window, and of course, iXiGO's own result page is always there for you. Happy Comparison !

Oh! And before we forget to tell you, don't forget to enable popup windows for iXiGO.com if you want to use this feature!

Keep searching......

Not too sure about the dates you want to travel on ? Have a certain budget in mind for that weekend getaway to Goa ? Need to find out when fares are lowest over the entire month ? Or, just curious about how fares vary according to the date you want to fly on?

iXiGO announces this new cool tool that allows you to browse for lowest airline fares over the next 30 days. This feature is currently available on the most frequently searched sectors.

Our fare outlook shows these fares on an easy-to-browse chart, where you can hover your mouse on the nodes to see details, or click on the nodes to launch a search for the chosen date.

Sample our Bangalore to Goa or Delhi to Goa fare outlook. If you find some dirt cheap fares, do share your ecstasy ;-)

Keep searching......

Ever needed to fly from Bangalore to Ranchi or from New Delhi to Trichi? Then you know what we are talking about ! You had wished, wondered and sighed when you searched those less-known routes on other travel portals and kept waiting for ages for that magical result within your budget that never appeared. Well, iXiGO now gets you anywhere a flight goes to, thanks to the wonderful network of national and regional carriers throughout India. Search and compare all routing options between two cities in just one click !

Bottomline - iXiGO now connects all the smaller airports of India through their nearest airport hubs. The first travel search in India to do so. Just one more innovation to give you India's most comprehensive travel search experience!

iXiGO's quest for path-breaking features has resulted in another "first" for the Indian travel industry. Now, you can see multiple airline combinations, with different airlines for an onward & return flight. You can checkout and book this round-trip by clicking on separate links for onward and return journeys. Best of all, you can see & compare total prices for such combinations, inclusive of all taxes and fees.

Bored of going to the results page and selecting the flights you chose on iXiGO one more time on the airline website? Confused because you see all-inclusive prices on iXiGO and prices exclusive of taxes on airline websites? Well, we have worked hard with our airline partners to offer India's first direct-checkout experience - allowing you to complete the booking on the airline website in just one step where your details and payment information is required. Direct checkout functionality is offered on the following airlines - Go Air, Kingfisher, Spicejet, and Indigo. We are working hard to roll it out on more airlines.

Want to do the same search you did yesterday, or want to come back to the same result page in a couple of hours from now? Easy - just click on the bookmark icon on the top right of your search results and store it in your browser bookmarks (ouch, IE favorites). Did you know? You can also just copy-paste the URL from your browser in your IM/chat conversation if you are planning a trip alongwith your friends. Unlike other travel website, there are no expiring sessions or long, unfriendly URLs - yet another innovation from iXiGO for your convenience.

Whether you want to print out our result page and take it home to discuss with your grandma, or you want to review them on your drive back home, iXiGO has made it easier for you with the print icon added to the top right of the search results page. By clicking on the page, you will get a WYSIWYG print of your results page with any open details sections included.

We have updated air routes for airlines where new routes have been added recently, making sure every point to point connectivity in India is reflected accurately on our search.

A big thanks to all the users who gave us their feedback - some of the suggestions have already been incorporated and we are working hard on others - keep reading and commenting on our blog for staying up to date.