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Thanks for this.

Placename disambiguation is something we've wrestled with a lot lately. The way we do it now is: (a) find the most likely origin you meant based on proximity & size; (b) if we have historical data, choose the most likely destination given previous popularity, and (c) whatever the case, give prompts on each one to let you tell us you meant a different one.

Also, we don't currently support multi-city trips, so that would've confused the search parser.

But just running these searches now, they seem to give results:

http://adioso.com/us/boston-massachusetts-to-tunis-tn

http://adioso.com/tn/tunis-tn-to-barcelona-es

But yeah I know what you mean; the results can be baffling when they're not what you expect.

Thanks for sharing your experience.



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