Flights

16 Jun 2026 in Projects

I was looking at Google Flights a couple of months ago, as a part of an ill-fated plan to visit India with some friends this summer.

While I browsed, I noticed that different prices of flights told stories. A $6,000 flight to the rural Saharan Algeria-Mali border, a $1,000 flight discrepancy for two cities a half-hour drive apart, and a flight to Eastern Sudan that serves as the only gateway into the sprawling country: all of these tell stories.

Flight prices are a culmination of international relations, dependency on oil and LNG, economic status, and internal history. I created a project where I chose a few fascinating and relevant cases, their prices, and wrote up a few paragraphs on each location.

Check out the project here.