bAckup plAn

Inspiration

Customers sometimes have their flights canceled with no remaining flights to their final destination from their current airport. We try to solve this problem with an alternative solution.

What it does

Our project aims to solve the issue stated above by harnessing both American Airline's Flight Engine API with Google's Distance Matrix API. We combined the two to find the nearest airport within a drivable distance that has flights available by the time you drive there. Additionally, our project supplies the user with a primitive travel planner.

Challenges we ran into

The largest challenge was that none of our members had experience with API. This being the main component of our project meant that we all had to learn the functionalities of an API and how to use them adequately.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we have created the beginning of a Python Backend that has the initial necessary functionalitiesfor our application to work.

What we learned

The main takeaway is that we have garnered an understanding of how to use different types of API's and their uses within a backend program.

What's next for bAckup plAn

We plan to add a much needed front-end to our project. Allowing for seamless use and simple user-interface. Additionally, we were unable to find the time to create a flight connection finding algorithms. So as of right now our program only considers non-stop flights. In the future having the functionality of utlizing multi-stop flights could reduce travel time for the users.

Built With

• flight-engine
• google-distance-matrix
• python