About Qfly

Qfly was founded by a team of travel-savvy experienced Internet entrepreneurs, designers and developers. The creators of Qfly.eu all travel a lot, and like many others, they’re always hunting for the best deal. However, they consistently encountered a difficult time finding the cheapest tickets for tickets within Europe, as most discount tickets cannot be booked through traditional booking systems. You’d have to figure out which airlines fly where and then visit all websites of these airlines to compare the prices. This approach is an awful amount of work, especially when you’re still flexible with your dates (for example, you want to take your girlfriend on a weekend trip to Barcelona, but just want to go on the weekend that has the cheapest tickets).

The founders of the company saw an opportunity arise out of their frustration: a system that visits all airlines’ websites for you in a snap and presents all cheap tickets from both the traditional airlines and the low costs in a simple overview that lets you find the cheapest ticket really easily. When they came up with their idea for making ticket bookings radically transparent, they immediately became enthusiastic and have since worked frantically on the new site.

Qfly is owned by 2G Development BV.

Background

Lack of transparancy in travel bookings (especially with discount airlines and over multiple dates)

All airlines advertise that they have the cheapest tickets, but in reality only a portion of their tickets really are dirt-cheap. The airlines sell the cheap fares on a first-come, first served basis, so if one airline has already sold a lot of tickets for a particular day, the remaining tickets will become more expensive, while another airline may still have a lot of available seats at a lower fare. This process means you have to check all of these tickets with every airline.

So if you want to find the cheapest ticket for one particular day, you’ll have to figure out which airlines fly to that destination, then visit all the websites of those airlines (and possibly some travel agency sites, too, because they may have special deals with an airline) and then compare all these fares. That’s a lot of work!

The search becomes even more tedious when you’re flexible with your dates (you want to fly on a particular weekday sometime between two dates, or you want to stay either six or seven days, and so forth) or you’re fine with flying from any airport within a 100-kilometer range of a destination. That’s even more work!

And then there are airlines you may never have heard of. Probably everyone knows EasyJet and Ryanair, but there are lots of lesser-known airlines, too. They may be perfectly fine airlines, but often it happens that a discount airline from Spain is really well-known in Spain, while most people in Holland or Germany have never heard of it.

Once you know which companies offer the tickets for which you are looking, comparing prices is not easy because they all have different ways of displaying their fares (one include the taxes but not the service charges, the other does not include any of the additional costs, etc.) Qfly just shows you the all-in fares.

In short: Making sure you find the absolute best deal available is a lot of work. Qfly makes it really simple. We search every airline (over 500 of them) and allow you to find the cheapest ticket that’s just perfect for you, quickly and easily.

Find all the best deals in one place.

Existing sites simply do not show all tickets.

Qfly searches multiple websites and thus will always find any available tickets.

Consumers are smarter than many companies think.

Every airline and travel agency says that it offers the cheapest tickets. Of course consumers know better because they know that those companies in the end want to sell them their tickets.

Qfly makes ticket prices completely transparent and just refers you to the cheapest place to buy the cheapest tickets, while adding a level of flexibility that’s unheard of and – above all – simply too much work to do by hand.

Radical transparency and flexibility

Taking short (weekend) breaks abroad has always been a lot of fun, and now that flying has become very inexpensive, more and more people can do it. Typically, people make these plans by looking at what is affordable when and then making their plans on the basis of that information (for example, any weekend in October). Existing travel-planning websites have overlooked this fact and still allow people to search only for specific dates/date ranges. This approach means that one has to check all dates that are convenient individually (for example, every weekend in October, one-by-one).

Qfly brings radically new transparency by allowing people to search for all dates that are convenient at once (for example, any weekend in October).