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Well said :)

Sorry, I possibly stated that poorly - what I meant was: The current state of duopolistic airlines technology suppliers means that there may not be sufficient motiviation to evolve…

The game theory is indeed complex. > offer compensation equal to the reservation price of the customer It's a little more complex than this. It's highly feasible to offer compensat…

This. (Disclosure: I'm cofounder/CTO of Volantio). Airlines are very much currently burdened with a legacy that was cemented in sometime in the 50's. It may be worth mentioning tha…

Usually I'd post a blurb about what we do here but, in this case, recent HackerNews discussion + press probably does a much better job that I would. HN thread here: https://news.yc…

It's a little more nuanced than this. Gate auctions are a good solution, but can only happen in the last ~15-20 minutes prior to departure, which leads to "too late" scenarios as e…

This. (Disclosure: I'm co-founder of Adioso/Volantio btw) Just confirming the above: The no-show rate is actually relatively stable in _most_ cases, which is why airlines try and o…

We're hiring full stack engineers to help bring modern SaaS to the airline industry (and travel in general). We have a few core products that range from putting accurate, honest pr…

Slava is one of the smartest people I've met (and I'm sure the rest of the team follows suite) - it's indeed sad that the RethinkDB company is no more. I feel we're at a stage wher…

Volantio is hiring experienced full-stack developers to help fix travel tech for airlines. We make some of the world’s biggest travel sites suck less by providing technology to air…

Volantio (YCW09) | Full Stack Engineer | Atlanta | Full-time | ONSITE Volantio is hiring an experienced full-stack developer to help us fix travel tech for airlines. We make some o…

Volantio (YCW09) | Full Stack Engineer | Atlanta | Onsite https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11402428

Volantio is hiring full stack developers with great communication skills who can help make some of the world’s biggest travel sites suck a bunch less, by providing tech to airlines…

We (Volantio, the B2B arm of Adioso) are looking for full stack developers with great communication skills who can help make some of the world’s biggest travel sites suck a bunch l…

We (Volantio, the B2B arm of Adioso) are looking for full stack developers with great communication skills who can help make some of the world’s biggest travel sites suck a bunch l…

I'd be really interested to see the pricing/commercials around this too. There was a startup that did exactly this a few years back that got Branson's attention and turned into Vir…

Hey Simon, Hmmm, you're right about the IE issues ( http://mrcoles.com/blog/cookies-max-age-vs-expires/ ). I haven't looked into how possible/hard expires would be in nginx config,…

Expanding on this, one of the things ITA/QPX comes with is a dirty big availability cache that's constantly being primed (and paid for) by their customers (ie: Kayak, Orbitz, et al…

I would think the limiting factor is availability. You can pre-compute valid fares between cities super-fast with sufficient computing power, but you're still (somewhat) limited by…

Anyone had any practical experience with this? I'm somewhat skeptical of the practicality of a graph database backed by a network-connected datastore (as distinct from a graph data…

Hmmm, interesting! I hadn't heard about that - Do you have a reference URL?

I heartily agree - I may have overstated my case slightly with the "Giant Step Backwards", it just definitely seemed that way on initial experience. It also made for a better title…

It sounds like your experience was very similar to mine. Except that I long ago upgraded my 80-char margin to 120 :)