six entries out, the nights arithmetic in
What the flight box hands over before you reserve anything overland
This page sets out what the flight box hands over and what it keeps. This office arranges no carriage, so the box passes the question to a company that sells seats. Six entries travel and nothing else; the count of nights against the lines of this catalogue is worked out where you stand and is sent nowhere.
Reserve this with the officeNothing is charged here. The form stays open at any hour and a person writes back inside one working day.
The six entries that travel
Six things go and nothing else: the airport you start from, the airport you finish at, the day of the flight out, the day of the flight back where there is one, the class, and the number of people in each of three age brackets. No name goes with them, no electronic mail address, no telephone number, and nothing typed into any other field on this website. The box holds no such field and invents none behind your back.
Who answers, since it is not this office
On the far end sits a booking company. It is not this firm, and the only thing shared between the two is a host borrowing a name from this domain. Prices, availability and any hold placed on a seat belong wholly to that company and read as whatever its own systems say at the moment you look. Nothing on this page stores them or repeats them back. A card, where one is wanted, is typed on its pages: there is no field on this website able to accept those digits and none is planned.
The ticket is issued under that company's conditions and under nothing written here. Should a purchase follow, it keeps terms with this office agreed long before anybody looked anything up, settled from its end rather than added to your total.
This office arranges neither seats nor sea crossings
That is worth repeating on a page about a flight box, because the box could be mistaken for a change of business and it is not one. The catalogue is overland from end to end. Nobody here contracts with an airline or a shipping line, nobody here issues a ticket, and no figure printed anywhere on this site has ever contained a seat on a plane. The box exists because a reader still has to reach the head of a line, and pointing at a company that sells seats is more use than silence.
The arithmetic that stays in your browser
The line beneath the fields is worked out where you are standing and is transmitted nowhere. When both dates carry a value, the box counts the nights between them and reports which whole lines from this catalogue would fit inside that count, longest first. When none fits, it names the longest single segment that does.
Those numbers come from the same catalogue file the index page counts, read once when the site is built, so the box and the pages can never quote different lengths for the same journey. They are nights on the ground: no flying time is folded in, and nothing in them is a quotation.
Why the day fields refuse some dates
A date already past is refused, and so is one roughly eleven months ahead. That is the reach of the schedules the booking company can see, since fares are generally loaded about eleven months before departure and there is nothing at all behind a date past that. Asked anyway, the search finds nothing behind the date and answers blank, which on a page like this one reads as breakage rather than as an empty calendar. Saying no outright avoids that.
The request form is a different thing entirely
The form further down the page runs the other way about. It posts to this website and to nowhere else, the booking company never sees it, and its whole purpose is to let this office write back to you about a segment or a line. The two share nothing: the flight box cannot read that form, and the form cannot read the flight box.