Wikipedia To The Rescue

A friend of mine recently wrote a short article about the greatness of Wikipedia, to further motivate his point I wanted to share an experience I had in the last few days that illustrates the importance of this great site.

The other day I was intensely focused on planning my trip to Europe. As such, it was important to plan out cheap flights through a few cities of my choosing :)
What I discovered was that it was difficult to find the various small European charter plane companies on normal search engines like Google. Sure enough there were the better known bunch like Ryan air and Easy Jet, but for whatever reason the smaller airlines that I came across all operated from Britain; this was not good at all since I was not planning on going there.

Luckily I had a chat with a friend of mine that pointed me to a wikipedia article discount airlines in Europe ... what a life saver!

I was surprised to find out that wikipedia had this information listed there and in such thorough detail, but I guess it should not have been that unexpected. In the end I was able to find the right combination of airlines to get me where I wanted to go; Berlin Palma de Mallorca Valencia

In the process I found the following airlines most useful for me; Air Berlin, Vergin Airlines and Easy Jet

Wikipedia is a great resource of all kinds of information, so don't forget to use it.