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How MeetEven finds a fair place

Meeting halfway sounds fair. But halfway on a map is often an ocean, or a town with no airport. So MeetEven asks a better question: where can you both fly, without one of you doing all the travelling?

  1. 1. Where can you both go?

    We keep our own map of direct flights, built from public sources and refreshed regularly. Every result shows the date of its data. A city counts as one place: if one of you lands at Gatwick and the other at Heathrow, that's still London, and we tell you the airports differ. Want more options? Allow one stop, and a second tab shows the places a connection opens up.

  2. 2. How long is each trip?

    For many direct flights we show typical departure and arrival times, seen on real flights in recent months. Where we have none, we estimate from the distance, and we say so. A stop always costs extra time, so a direct flight usually wins. Times change, so check the real tickets before you book.

  3. 3. Is it fair?

    We look at the longer trip first. A place where one of you flies 2 hours and the other 9 isn't fair, even if the total looks small. So the top places are where the longer trip is as short as possible; the total only breaks ties. If the best direct place is lopsided and a trip with one stop is fairer for both of you, we show that too: “Fairer with one stop”.

    In summerSeasonalSummer only
    Winnipeg6.1 h
    Brussels3.4 h

  4. 4. The balance number

    Each place shows how balanced it is: the shorter trip divided by the longer one, so 100% means you both travel the same time. When one of you flies much longer, we say so. You always see both people's hours, so you can judge for yourself.

Your choices

  • Who's happy to travel more? Sometimes one of you has more holidays, or simply likes flying. Move the slider, and the ranking follows.
  • Where? Pick the continents you'd like, or leave some out. You can also leave out countries, for example where one of you needs a visa. Flights with a stop there are left out too.
  • Seasonal routes Some flights only run in summer or winter. By default we show only places you can both reach all year. Turn on “Include seasonal routes” for more options; those places carry a “⚠ Seasonal” mark, so check they fly when you travel.

Arrive together

Landing an hour apart is nicer than five. When the typical times line up, a place gets an “Arrive together” mark, with the day and both landing times in local time.

Where the data comes from

Routes from Wikipedia and Wikidata (CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC0); airports from OurAirports. Every result links to the exact page version it came from.

Typical flight times: contains information from the aircraft flight schedules dataset by MrAirspace, derived from adsb.lol ADS-B data, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0).

Coming next

Nearby airports (when a short train ride gets you a better place), prices, and a hint about which places are worth the trip.