Momondo Prices Airfares to Visit Facebook Friends and Puts Them All In a Compass


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Momondo's new Friend Compass in its mobile apps almost turns flight search into a game as travelers can view how much it costs to fly to the current locations of their Facebook friends. Hey, it's a new twist on social travel.
Travel companies from airlines to online travel agencies have been struggling to add utility and depth to their sometimes-bland flight search features in their mobile apps. Priceline is testing inserting Routehappy's flight ratings into Priceline's iOS apps, and the latest company to jazz up flight search in mobile is Denmark-based metasearcher Momondo. Momondo added