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Check out new, indigenous app called Flightdey

Flightdey is a flight comparison website that should allow users compare the fares of domestic air trips among various airlines in Nigeria.

Flightdey

Flightdey’s limited beta works like typical flight search, you choose your departure and arrival points, dates and ticket class, and hit search.

The website spits out available flights, this is where functionality ends, clicking a “select flight” redirects you to the airline’s homepage, and does not take any of your inputted values along to pre-populate on their booking form.

The platform’s developers appear to believe that their platform is better than anything else out there because “it covers more local airlines than others do”.

To their credit, the software works, even if limited to one airline, but which in turn renders the point of being a comparison platform moot, of course, this handicap should go away once the right permissions and partnerships are secured, which should allow them enable actual bookings from the platform.

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Another thing to consider is that flight search/comparison is such a crowded and commoditised space, even in Nigeria.

Asides the market leader, Wakanow, and its trailing by miles rival,Travelstart, most Nigerian banks with internet banking platforms have added flight search and bookings as value added features available to their customers from right inside their web portals and mobile apps.

The only really interesting thing about Flightdey is that it seems to be riffing off Dealdey’s name, even though, neither Dealdey, Nigeria’s largest discount ecommerce website, nor Sim Shagaya have anything to do with it.

In response to an email inquiry, Dealdey CEO told TechCabal that they are definitely “not affiliated with Flightdey”, and are investigating to discover if there are any possible brand infringements.

If all Flightdey does is search and spit out flights that redirect to an airline’s homepage, its claim to be better is no more than empty pre-launch crap that is unfortunately the norm with a lot of startups.

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Perhaps they can be allowed because the platform is still in beta, and maybe they have got some space-age disruptive shit going on in the backend that will light the entire flight search space on fire when they finally take off.

For now, its creators have chosen to remain hidden, to the point of purchasing domain whois privacy, there is probably nothing new to see here, except a borrowed name.

Source: Techcabal

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