Aerlingus Website

BaZmO* · 04-04-2006 12:50PM #1

There's something about the Aerlingus website that's always bothered me, well maybe not bothered me, but I've always been curious.

When you go to book a flight you're given an option of where to flight out from and instead of starting alphabethically it starts with London, then Manchester and then another couple of English cities and then it goes alphabethically. I've always found it quite strange that an Irish Airline wouldn't have Cork, Dublin and Shannon either as the only ones included in the first list or as a joint listing with the ones there at the moment.

Does anyone know why it's done in the present way?

Spocker · 04-04-2006 12:59PM

The start cities depend on the "Country" drop down list in the upper right. Change it to UK, Ireland, US etc and the start cities in the list change accordingly. It's kinda clever (doing reverse lookups on your IP), but an average connection may not go through an Irish provider, proxy etc etc. When going through my own (Irish) company/proxy defaults me to the US when browsing in FF but Ireland in IE :eek:

[edit] Discovered it's the language settings in FF thats giving me the US by default. Adding EN-UK and setting that as the default language gave me English cities, adding plain 'old EN gave me the Irish cities first [/edit]

BaZmO* · 04-04-2006 01:15PM

AHH, very good. Never noticed that. Cheers.

Ivan · 04-04-2006 01:20PM

Good one shaggy.

loz · 04-04-2006 01:43PM

Its based on locale setting in browser - not IP

Aerlingus Website

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