Case Study
FarePilot
FarePilot is a flight booking platform that helps travellers compare fares, manage itineraries, complete bookings, and access trip information through one connected experience.
- 5.5 MonthsDelivery Timeline
- 7 SpecialistsProject Team
- 12 IntegrationsConnected Interfaces
Project Overview
FarePilot is a flight booking platform designed to simplify how travellers search, compare, and manage air travel. Users can create profiles, search available flights, compare fares, review schedules, select preferred options, complete bookings, and access itinerary details from one platform. Travel operations teams can manage flight information, booking records, customer activity, and support workflows through administrative tools. The product was built to bring flight discovery and reservation management into a more organised digital journey. Abhineh Infotech supported FarePilot across product planning, UI UX design, application development, flight data integrations, booking workflows, testing, and deployment.
Project Idea
FarePilot was designed to make flight discovery and booking easier by connecting search, fare comparison, itinerary management, payments, and operational workflows in one platform.
Flight booking involves multiple information points, including routes, schedules, fares, baggage details, passenger information, availability, and booking status. FarePilot needed to bring these elements together without overwhelming travellers, while giving operational teams the tools required to manage booking activity.
Abhineh Infotech connected flight search, fare data, passenger details, booking, payment processing, itinerary management, notifications, and administrative workflows through an integrated platform architecture. This allowed information from connected flight services to move into a consistent booking journey while keeping important travel details accessible.
The product principle focused on clarity, speed, and confidence. Travellers needed to compare options quickly, understand fare details, and complete reservations with fewer unnecessary steps. Clear itinerary information and consistent booking states also helped users understand what had been selected, confirmed, or changed.
Challenges
FarePilot supported travellers and internal teams with different requirements and permissions. Travellers needed simple search, comparison, booking, and itinerary tools, while operational users required broader access to reservations, customer records, flight information, and support workflows.
Flight information can change frequently across schedules, fares, seat availability, baggage rules, passenger details, and booking status. The platform needed structured processing and validation to maintain consistent information across search results, booking screens, confirmation records, and operational interfaces.
Flight search can generate substantial request volumes, particularly during seasonal travel periods and promotional activity. FarePilot required efficient API handling, caching, search optimisation, and scalable infrastructure to maintain responsive flight discovery, fare comparison, booking, and itinerary workflows.
Project Milestones We Achieved
| Milestone | Tasks | Timeline | Responsible |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery and Planning | Mapped traveller journeys, flight search requirements, fare comparison logic, booking rules, passenger flows, integrations, and technical architecture. | Month 1 | Product and Engineering Team |
| UI/UX Design | Designed flight search, fare comparison, passenger details, checkout, confirmation, itinerary, account, and administrative interfaces. | Month 2 | UI UX Design Team |
| Core Development | Built authentication, flight search, fare display, passenger management, booking services, payment workflows, APIs, and itinerary foundations. | Month 3 to 4 | Application Development Team |
| Integrations and Testing | Connected flight data, payment, notification, and booking services while validating search accuracy, reservation flows, and system performance. | Month 5 | Integration and QA Team |
| Launch and Optimization | Prepared production infrastructure, completed final validation, monitored booking activity, resolved issues, and refined search and reservation journeys. | Month 5.5 | Engineering and Delivery Team |
Project Features
FarePilot combines flight discovery, fare comparison, booking, passenger management, itinerary access, and operational controls into one structured travel booking platform.
Traveller Signup and Profile
Travellers can create accounts, manage personal information, and maintain passenger details for smoother flight booking and itinerary management.
Flight Search and Comparison
Users can search routes, review available flights, compare fares, and evaluate schedules through a focused flight discovery experience.
Fare and Flight Details
Detailed flight information presents schedules, fare options, baggage information, and relevant booking conditions before selection.
Booking and Payments
Travellers can enter passenger information, confirm selected flights, complete payment, and receive reservation confirmation through a structured checkout flow.
Itinerary Management
Users can access confirmed flight details, booking references, travel schedules, and relevant reservation information from their accounts.
Operations Dashboard
Internal teams gain central visibility into travellers, flight bookings, payment activity, reservations, and customer support information.
Results
FarePilot launched as a connected flight booking platform covering flight search, fare comparison, passenger information, booking, payments, itinerary management, and administrative workflows. The delivered product brought important stages of flight reservation into one structured experience.
Centralised booking information gave operational teams clearer visibility into reservations, traveller records, payment activity, and flight related data. This helped create more consistent processes for reviewing bookings, handling customer requests, and monitoring reservation activity.
Travellers gained a more organised journey from flight search through booking confirmation. Clear fare information, flight details, passenger forms, payment steps, and itinerary access helped users understand each stage before and after completing a reservation.
The platform established a foundation for future travel product expansion. Its architecture can support additional flight services, loyalty features, booking options, traveller tools, fare capabilities, notifications, and operational reporting as FarePilot evolves.
Development Process
Explore
- Journey Mapping
- Travel Research
- Requirement Analysis
- Wireframe Creation
- UI UX Design
- Flow Validation
Implement
- App Development
- Backend Development
- API Development
- Flight Data Services
- Payment Services
- Notification Services
Execute
- Functional Testing
- API Testing
- Performance Review
- Production Setup
- Booking Monitoring
- Journey Optimization
Typography & colors
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Primary
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Secondary
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Tertiary Color
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Icons Color
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Text Color
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Background Color
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App Visuals
FarePilot
56 fares
Compare
Best fares
Itinerary
Selected
Bookings
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Pending
OpenAlerts
Fare notices
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Tech Stack
React supported the web booking interface with reusable components for search, comparison, checkout, and itinerary screens. Spring Boot powered backend services and booking APIs. PostgreSQL managed traveller, reservation, and transaction data, while Elasticsearch supported fast flight search and filtering. Azure provided cloud infrastructure, application hosting, monitoring, and deployment services.
- React
- Spring Boot
- PostgreSQL
- Elasticsearch
- Microsoft Azure
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