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Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by cemregr »

mmanfrin wrote: post #12

Concur feels like an odd company to acquire them, but maybe it's to streamline business travel? Also -- I recently used Hipmunk (been using it for a few years now), but found that it didn't find deals that Chase's rewards portal found, which I thought was terribly odd (why would a rewards portal find better deals?).

Makes a lot of sense to me - where I work, we use Concur to book business travel. Concur's current UI for booking flights is complicated and makes it hard to pick optimal results. I think they could benefit from the team working to improve the feature.

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by jmarbach »

rebelidealist wrote: post #5
kylecordes wrote: post #4

Hipmunk has been an excellent flight search tool, the best I have found as of a few years ago. Shockingly better than most of the rest of them back when it started, in terms of being able to understand and choose among numerous choices. Unfortunately, that was then and this is now. Several of the airlines have dropped out of participating in flight comparison sites, and those that do apparently pay staggeringly littl…

What is the best flight search these days?

Disclaimer: I created Concorde.

Concorde — Discover cheap flights to hundreds of destinations worldwide: https://concorde.io

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by wxs »

blahshaw wrote: post #18
joelrunyon wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google flights or matrix.itasoftware.com (you can't book here though)

Google Flights is simply a pretty UI around matrix.itasoftware.com, no?

The matrix has nice features like flexible dates on a multi-leg trip that Google Flights doesn't offer.

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by mbesto »

rebelidealist wrote: post #5
kylecordes wrote: post #4

Hipmunk has been an excellent flight search tool, the best I have found as of a few years ago. Shockingly better than most of the rest of them back when it started, in terms of being able to understand and choose among numerous choices. Unfortunately, that was then and this is now. Several of the airlines have dropped out of participating in flight comparison sites, and those that do apparently pay staggeringly littl…

What is the best flight search these days?

Google Flights. I fly 3-4 times per month and it's godsend.

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by [deleted] »

rebelidealist wrote: post #5
kylecordes wrote: post #4

Hipmunk has been an excellent flight search tool, the best I have found as of a few years ago. Shockingly better than most of the rest of them back when it started, in terms of being able to understand and choose among numerous choices. Unfortunately, that was then and this is now. Several of the airlines have dropped out of participating in flight comparison sites, and those that do apparently pay staggeringly littl…

What is the best flight search these days?

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Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by kilroy123 »

kylecordes wrote: post #4

Hipmunk has been an excellent flight search tool, the best I have found as of a few years ago. Shockingly better than most of the rest of them back when it started, in terms of being able to understand and choose among numerous choices. Unfortunately, that was then and this is now. Several of the airlines have dropped out of participating in flight comparison sites, and those that do apparently pay staggeringly littl…

There are services growing in popularity for this. (I don't have any affiliation, I've heard good things, and want to try it.)

https://www.flystein.com

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by stevesearer »

tswartz wrote: post #6
kylecordes wrote: post #4

Hipmunk has been an excellent flight search tool, the best I have found as of a few years ago. Shockingly better than most of the rest of them back when it started, in terms of being able to understand and choose among numerous choices. Unfortunately, that was then and this is now. Several of the airlines have dropped out of participating in flight comparison sites, and those that do apparently pay staggeringly littl…

I really enjoy using Hipmunk too. More recently, I've begun using Google Flights in more of an "explorer" capacity. Enter my starting city and travel dates. Then I use their map to see how much it is to fly to different places in the world. Perfect when I don't have a plan https://www.google.com/flights/

My go to for not having a plan is Kayak Explore: https://www.kayak.com/explore

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by stevesearer »

hentrep wrote: post #10
nilkn wrote: post #9

Hipmunk and Google Flights are my two go-to tools these days for beginning the search for flight tickets. I use Hipmunk when I know where I want to go and when, and I use Google Flights when I know I want to take a trip, but I'm flexible about both when and where.

I haven't used Google Flights -- will check it out -- but have taken a similar approach with Skyscanner.com. Basically, if I want to filter a trip based on price without regard to location or travel date. Really fun to play with!

Kayak has a nice tool for that too: https://www.kayak.com/explore

Pretty amazing to find flights to Europe from LAX for under $500 for many destinations in Europe and Asia. Sub-$400 for some destinations too

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