✈️ Flight Booking System

A professional, desktop-based Flight Booking System built using C# WinForms, providing a seamless and intuitive interface for searching, booking, and managing flight reservations. This project is ideal for educational purposes, small-scale deployment, or as a base for more advanced airline booking applications.

📌 Features

• 🔍 Flight Search: Search available flights by origin, destination, and date.
• 🧭 Smart Filtering: Filter results by airline, price, flight class (economy/business), and trip duration.
• 🎟️ Booking Interface: Enter traveler information, select seats, choose class, and view pricing before confirmation.
• 💳 Integrated Payment Panel: Seamless interface to process payments during booking.
• 📩 Contact Us: Allows users to send inquiries or feedback via the built-in messaging system.
• 🛂 Admin Dashboard: Manage flights, bookings, and users via a clean, centralized panel.
• 📄 PDF Ticket Generation: Generate a well-structured PDF ticket after successful booking.
• 🌍 Airport Autocomplete: Utilizes MWGG Airports JSON for dynamic airport search suggestions.
• 🌐 Modernized UI: Consistent layout with FontAwesome icons and sleek modern design.

🖥️ Screenshots

• Login:

• Home Page:

• Flight Search:

• My Trips:

• Generated PDF:

🏗️ Tech Stack

• Language: C#
• Framework: WinForms (.NET Framework)
• UI: FontAwesome.Sharp for icons and UI enhancements
• Data: JSON files (for airport data), in-memory objects (extendable to database)
• Architecture: Layered architecture using Services, Models, and UserControls

🧾 Project Structure

Flight-Booking-System/
├── Controls/           # Custom UI elements (SearchBox, FilterPanel, BookingForm, etc.)
├── Models/             # Core data models (Flight, Booking, User, ContactMessage, etc.)
├── Services/           # Business logic and data management
├── Forms/              # Application windows and user interface
├── Assets/             # Icons, logos, and style assets
├── docs/screenshots/   # UI screenshots for documentation
├── Program.cs          # Main entry point
└── README.md

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2022 or later
• .NET Framework (matching version used in the project)
• Git (to clone the repository)

Steps to Run

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/AnasSarkiz/Flight-Booking-System.git

2. Open the solution (.sln) file in Visual Studio.

3. Restore NuGet packages if needed.

4. Press Start or Ctrl+F5 to build and run the project.

🧪 Future Improvements

• ✅ Database integration (SQL Server / SQLite)
• ✅ Authentication & Role-based Access Control
• ✅ REST API layer for backend logic
• ✅ Real-time flight data with APIs like AviationStack or Amadeus
• ✅ Seat selection UI improvements
• ✅ Enhanced PDF ticket styling and QR code support

🤝 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! If you have suggestions, bugs, or ideas, feel free to open an issue first.

Steps to contribute:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/my-feature)
3. Make your changes
4. Commit (git commit -m "Added new feature")
5. Push your changes (git push origin feature/my-feature)
6. Open a Pull Request

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

📧 Contact

Developed by Anas Sarkiz

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