Comment by lmm

Comment by lmm 4 days ago

8 replies

Maybe you're only using well-designed sites? Try making a booking with a Chinese airline and you'll quickly wish for an assistant to delegate it all to.

dzjkb 4 days ago

funny you say that, I was literally just booking a flight with air china yesterday and the UX was 10x better than the average wizzair/ryanair experience - a clear, readable UI (with a great table comparison of prices +-3 days from the selected dates), no ads, no random services getting pushed in your face, no booking tabs automatically opening in the background

  • lmm 3 days ago

    Huh. Last time I tried with them (about a year ago), and more recently trying with China Eastern, I couldn't even get it to show me a flight that I knew was flying on a given day (just at a slightly higher price than the one it would show me).

shakna 4 days ago

If you struggle, then an agent will probably fail.

  • lmm 3 days ago

    I know exactly what to do, it's just very tedious to actually do it. Which seems like the perfect use case for an agent.

    • shakna 3 days ago

      Tedium often means a large context window. Lots of personal information to be entered, in different formats, that must be exactly right.

      Thats exactly what an agent regularly fails at.

  • ares623 4 days ago

    Will it matter if you can’t tell?

    • samrus 4 days ago

      Yeah. Because you'll think you have a flight to beijing when you dont