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You live in Montreal and your best friend lives in Toulouse. You’re looking for a place to meet without losing half a day on a layover, somewhere in the middle. But where?
Traditional booking sites don’t answer this question: they assume you’ve already chosen your destination. Google Flights, Skyscanner, Kayak: all start from the premise that you’re looking for a flight from A to B. No one answers the reverse question: “here’s where we live, find us a meeting point.”
That’s exactly the problem Midway solves, a new meetup tool I designed. I’m passionate about travel and points, and I’m excited to introduce this recently imagined and developed project to the community. The article below introduces it: it explains how Midway works and why I was led to create this tool.
Enjoy reading, and don’t hesitate to also check out our Google Flights: How to Find the Best Flights and Fares to go further in your planning.
Midway was designed to help you meet your loved ones easily at a location that will be halfway or most suitable for everyone.
You enter your departure cities, and the tool displays all destinations accessible by direct flight for each traveler. Moreover, no approximate suggestions like those from ChatGPT: the results are based on actual air routes, month by month.
It is a problem I know well. In fact, I created Midway precisely because I could not figure out where to meet that friend from Toulouse without risking wasting time on a layover. Now, let us see how it works.
The Midway interface remains easy to use. First, you enter the departure cities. Then, a map displays the different airports connected to those cities by a direct flight. The results are also available as a table listing each destination. Finally, you can filter and share these results with your group.
First, you select your group’s departure airports. You can enter up to 6 different departure cities by clicking the “Add departure city” button. In addition, the geolocation icon displays a list of airports near you.
Next, you have two ways to view the results. On the one hand, “Let’s meet midway” identifies the halfway airport for each departure city. On the other hand, you can simply view all destinations without highlighting this “midway” point.
By clicking on a destination, you can see the time and distance from each departure city, as well as the months when flights are available. You can also start a flight search from this page or share it with your group.
In addition, search results are also available as a table. You can sort airports by name, country, distance, or flight time.
The list of candidate cities can be extensive. Therefore, a filtering function helps you narrow down the results:
In addition, these filters can be applied to a single departure city or to all of them at the same time.
Finally, you can share all results or a specific destination with your travel companions. This way, everyone can give their Review before making a collective decision.
Your daughter has just moved to London to study abroad. You and your partner are at home in Seattle. You miss her, and you want to visit her. The instinct is to book a flight to Heathrow. That is perfectly logical for the first trip. However, it may also be an opportunity to discover Europe with her on subsequent visits.
Here’s a map of accessible destinations:
By filtering the results, you can focus on Europe. This way, your daughter does not miss classes because of a flight or an overly long time difference.
You live on the East Coast of North America. Your best friend from your student days now lives on the West Coast. However, she is too busy with work to allow herself a long trip. At the same time, she wants a change of scenery.
In this case, Midway makes it possible to quickly find a destination reachable by direct flight from New York (LGA) and Los Angeles (LAX). This way, you limit the time spent in the air and enjoy your time together more.
Once your meeting point has been identified with Midway, your points and miles come into play to book direct flights. Here are a few Canadian credit cards that are particularly useful for this step:
To compare all options available in Canada, also see our page on the best credit cards. In addition, to track price fluctuations on the routes Midway suggests, take a look at our guide on Google Flights and flight price tracking.
Midway does not replace your favourite booking site. Rather, it comes earlier—at the step no one covers: figuring out where to meet. Once your destination is identified, your points come into play. Check award-seat availability on the routes suggested by Midway, compare programs, and maximize your rewards on a flight you know is direct.
Whether it is to meet up with a friend, organize a family reunion, or plan a team retreat, try Midway with your own departure cities. The results are often surprising.
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