the six figures that travel, the arithmetic that stays, and who answers for the price
What the fare box sends away, and what it only reckons on this page
The box on the front page hands six figures to a booking company and shows you what that company answers. This page sets out exactly which six travel, what stays in the browser, why no field here will take a card, why the calendar refuses a date more than eleven months out, and what the office is paid when a booking follows.
Reserve a windowAn answer is written inside one business day by somebody at this end.
The box asks for six things and sends all six: the airport you leave from, the airport you land at, the day out, the day back if there is one, the class flown, and how many people are travelling in each of three age groups. Nothing else goes with them. It carries no name, no electronic mail address, no telephone number and nothing typed anywhere else on this website, because the box has no field for any of that and adds none behind your back.
The company on the other end
The figures arrive at a booking company, a separate firm from this office, reached through a host that answers to a name this domain lends it. Every price it shows belongs to that company and is live at the second you see it. A seat it holds is held in its system, not here. Where a card is asked for it is entered over there, on their pages, and this website has no field anywhere capable of taking those digits. The ticket is issued under their conditions and under nothing written on this site.
Should a booking follow, that company hands this office a share out of its own margin, on terms agreed with it well ahead of any search anyone makes here. Nothing in that share answers to what you type, and it is never added on top: the figure quoted to you would read the same if this office did not exist.
What never leaves the page
The week arithmetic under the fields is done in your own browser and is transmitted nowhere. When two dates are entered, the box works out which week of the year they fall in and which of the windows in this catalogue are open across them. Those windows are the same rows the twelve month chart on the front page draws, read from the same table at build time, so the box and the chart can never disagree.
The line about the season is arithmetic of the same kind. It compares the latitude of the airport you land at with the latitude of this office and says whether you would arrive in the season you left, nearer the equator where seasons show less, or below the equator where the season is the opposite one. It is a statement about daylight and calendar, drawn from two positions on a globe. It consults no timetable, and none is available here.
Why the calendar stops where it does
The day fields refuse anything already past and anything more than eleven months ahead. That is the reach of the booking company's own schedules: airlines load fares roughly eleven months before departure and there is nothing behind a date past that, so a lookup for one would come back empty and look like a fault on this page. Refusing it is more honest than showing nothing.
The other form on this site
The request form is a different thing entirely and works the other way round. It is addressed to this site alone, it never reaches the booking company, and it exists so the office can write back to you about a window. Nothing typed into the fare box is carried into it, and nothing typed into it is carried into the fare box.