Vayama, international air travel ticket search 2.0

Vayama is a new air travel ticket search service. Vayama has few strong plus points when compared with other players. First, it focuses mainly on international travel unlike other domestic players. Second, it is build based on Web 2.0; the UI is amazing and is socially powered with travel tips.


VayamaAre you planning to travel overseas for business or personal reason? A new startup Vayama is here to offer you the best solution. Vayama is unique of it kind, which offers Americans to travel overseas with anease. International travelers always find it hard to find and book their air ticket. Vayama offer them help with robust international travel ticket search feature.

Vayama is backed by one of the largest travel organization in the world, BCD Holding. Vayama comes into industry with lot of experience and resource. Vayama also acts as travel agent to find good deals.

The first thing you notice about Vayama is the user interface. It has bought rich user experience with much friendly interface. Microsoft Virtual Earth powers the maps with touch and go feature. The touch and go feature makes the entry of airports much easier. You can click on the map and locate the airport. Alternatively for regular users, they can enter the three digit Airport code or start entering the first thee digits and select the applicable one from the list box.

Once you enter the departure / arrival airport and their corresponding dates, click on search to locate your travel itinerary. Vayama will search for thousands of public and private fare and finds the best deal for you. It will show you the route map for the currently available best deal. You can filter you results based on the stops, trip time, price, connection point, and airline.
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Based on the selection it will give you the itinerary for the travel with brief price information. Once youÒ€ℒre ready to reserve the ticket it pops you out with a 3D interface for seat selection. You have provision to book hotel and car also.

Apart from this Vayama has cool interface for getting around particular place. This feature would really help the new travelers. In that section you will find most basic information about the city, transportation, attractions and finally it does socialize with the blog on about those cities. Overall it will act as a good live travel guide!

Bottom line, Vayama helps American overseas travelers to an extent but it is yet to support ticketing for other nations, which I would say is the major drawback considering international audience. Vayama has the potential to take its crowd international along with international search it offers now

17 thoughts on “Vayama, international air travel ticket search 2.0”

  1. Tisk, tisk…….Ben’s techblog is becoming the TechCrunch 2.0, covering web 2.0 startups. Btw, the word Vayama sounds Indian, so is it Indian?

    And you should be covering startups more often, seeing how good you are at it.

    Keep up the good work, Ben. If only you would post more often πŸ˜‰ But I guess you can’t win them all.

    And how’s your webhost, Site5?

  2. Sumesh, Thanks for your comments and compliments πŸ˜‰

    Not exactly TechCrunch 2.0 but another TechCorner 2.0; I have to increase my posting frequency.

    I wonder why they have kept this name; They might have since they are taking their effort international. But Vayama is not an Indian Startup; read their About page.

    Couple of days back I made the final move to Site5. I’m extremely happy about their service and quick in time support. I’m a reseller customer with Site5 and they truly will buy my review soon πŸ™‚

  3. Thats true! I directed this site to one of my friend who wanted to travel back to India. He was fully amazed with the user experience and the accuracy as well. Vayama would lead the international market segment soon.!

  4. I agree with you! I’m thinking of creating few bunches of posts in a go and having it posted in a frequency! This would worth it for returning visitors.

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  6. The application may be cool – but if it’s not teamed up with great business process – then what’s the point? I am very disappointed with the service I received with Vayama. My and my husband’s tickets were not booked in a timely manner, causing us to lose our low price airfares. Vayama waited two weeks to contact us about this issue. The customer service rep tried to work out a compromise; They promised to call me back the next day to confirm what they could offer us, but they called back two days later, only to tell us that they needed three more days to work out the offer.

  7. Marie – I’m very sorry to hear about your experience. Yes you’re correct, even if the application is cool and not teamed/ supported by good process it is utter waste when it comes to services spectrum. I did have a good option about Vayamaa since they were backed up with good travel agency. Anyway, its pity to hear they were not able to help out you in this situation. BTW, did they work out any offer for your at last?

    Also I would like to warn the reader before trying out this service.

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  9. This was my first time using Vayama and so I was skeptical when I asked for a full refund. Technical problems with Vayama froze their system while processing my on-line payment. The next day called their toll free number instead and booked another flight. Unbeknownst to me, or the agent on the other end, my payment the day before had gone through causing a double booking. It took me two weeks to notice the mistake after checking my emails more throughly. I wanted a full refund and made my case to an agents without much success until I talked with Beth, one of Vayama supervisors. She listened to my views respectfully but also pointed out that a confirmation email (which I overlooked) was sent out immediately for the first booking. Despite this, she agreed with my premise that the agent, aware of the tech problems the day before, should of checked for a double booking. Still, Beth had to take my case to her supervisor which resulted in a happy ending. A check was written out for the total amount. While the entire process took two weeks, a bit longer than Beth said it would, I am happy that Vayama did the right thing. I will use them in the future not only becouse of their integrity but also for the fact they provided me with a fare price and schedule that others could not.

  10. Hello to you all,

    I just got done dealing with Vayama. Costumer service is terrible, if you need to change your flight, buy your ticket with another airlines.
    Vayama will charge you fees twice the value of your ticket, best part is they wont tell you that. When you see your confirmation and the price, God bless. If you need to call them, be prepaired you dealing with people from India and that costumer servie is not the same as US.
    I email them 10 times, still could not get straight answers. i was told i will pay penalty for exchange of $162 US, i got a bill for $562 sweet !!!!

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