Alastair Barber

Meet Me Half Way

This is a fun website that I recently put together for a hackathon run by Amadeus. I’ve not created anything for the web in ages so this was good fun to put together, and try and figure out this modern JavaScript thing :)

The backend is written in Python 3 using Flask and runs on a fun mix of Amazon Lambda, S3 and the excellent Python Anywhere. It’s something that I’m keen on developing - one of the most interesting things I’ve found is the amount of data that can be retrieved from a simple flight query that you would need to take into account: Things such as operating vs. marketing Airlines, Routing, Stopovers, Pricing Rules etc etc. I found that to make this app though I was only scratching the surface of what could be done with all this information and throwing a lot of valuable data away.

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