Yeah...the beta market research is a cool idea....however, like I said in the other thread, I think it could be a much better, and cooler, and easier to use, interface....

Go to the research page, pick a city in each drop down box and view that information. In the address bar you will see:

......./resroute.php?airport1=OAK&airport2=HOU

Pay close attention to the ending, in this example I picked OAK and HOU (airport identifiers). Change the 3 letter identifiers to whatever you want to veiw, lets say you're curious about a flight from Chicago Midway (MDW) to Detroit (DTW) you would replace OAK with MDW and HOU with DTW.

There needs to be a way to research markets prior to purchasing gates. If you honestly think that airliines dont have a clue of what the route will do prior to arranging required gates/aircraft, well, you dont have a clue.

The Market Research page is an absolute great idea!!!

However, I think it's poorly designed...from a User Interface aspect.

There's an awful lot of page changes you have to go thru to get information.

Also, the drop down boxes are absolutely too huge! There are too many options in them.

The page could be better using AJAX or possibly Flash with PHP remoting.

I'd volunteer to help, but I dont know if they want anyone else working on the project.

I'm not sure what the scope of this beta testing is, but I wanted to give my feedback.