Place2Place
Helping travelers discover cheaper, faster routes by comparing nearby airports and ground transportation.
My Process
Category
Tools
Founding team
I am the UX designer on this team, collaborating closely with our CEO and two developers to build and refine the product.
When you're searching for flights, most tools define "best" as a mix of price, time, and number of stops…but only for the airport you searched.
That’s a problem. Because in many cities, especially those near multiple airports, the “best” flight might not show up at all.
Place2Place is a flight search engine that finds smarter routes by factoring in alternate airports AND rideshare costs.
Jump to final product
Analyzing the impact of your default airport choice.
I’m searching for a flight from Dartmouth, Massachusetts - a small town located between Providence and Boston - to Atlanta. Since Dartmouth is slightly closer to Providence, most flight tools default to searching from Providence Airport, showing the top round-trip option as for $361 with over 4 hours of travel time.
But if I’m willing to get a ride for just 20 minutes farther to Boston Logan Airport, I can get a round-trip flight for $182 and under 3 hours of travel time.
So how can we help travelers find the most cost-effective and time-efficient routes by automatically comparing nearby airports and factoring in ground transportation?
Popular platforms like Google Flights only search the specific airport pairs you input. If you want to check surrounding airports, you have to:
Manually rerun your search with new airport codes
Use separate tools to calculate Uber/Lyft estimates
Do your own comparison to figure out the “true best” option
Hannah
Cheaper flight options often exist beyond your default search, but finding them is time-consuming and unintuitive.
Comparing flights and airport options requires multiple tabs of flight engines and maps, making the process slow and frustrating.
Many travelers only search from their closest airport, unaware that nearby alternatives might offer better prices or shorter travel times.
Current tools focus only on airfare. They don’t show the true cost or duration when ground travel is involved, making it hard to make informed tradeoffs.

Daniel

Debra
Feedback: UI design
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Final Design
The mobile experience
Closing thoughts