Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase
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Re: Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase
#2I almost never use anything other google flights when searching for a ticket. The UI is just so much better and easier to use than the ridiculous bloated crap that most travel sites are (especially when they are trying to shove car-rental and hotel deals in your face).
The one drawback is sometimes they are missing local / smaller airlines from their list of flights (which can be a major price difference from the major ones) on short flights.
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#3I wonder if the airlines will start gaming thing. Seeing what people are being told and doing the opposite to catch them off guard.
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#4Bing Travel had predictions for fare fluctuations for air tickets back in 2009. It was pretty awesome back when I flied a lot, but they apparently killed the feature in 2014. Now Google's bringing it back, two years later.
I don't understand the future sometimes. ¯\(°_o)/¯
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#5I wonder if the airlines will start gaming thing. Seeing what people are being told and doing the opposite to catch them off guard.
I've had the experience of switching from a localized google to google.com/ncr and had ticket prices drop ~4X. I think airlines already try to game the system based on country of origin.
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#6Doesn't Kayak do they same thing? They have the wait buy stuff too.
However my favorite site now days skiplagged. The site united try to sue.
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#7I almost never use anything other google flights when searching for a ticket. The UI is just so much better and easier to use than the ridiculous bloated crap that most travel sites are (especially when they are trying to shove car-rental and hotel deals in your face). The one drawback is sometimes they are missing local / smaller airlines from their list of flights (which can be a major price difference from the maj…
My favourite is http://adioso.com, it's even cleaner than Google Flights and it has "Anytime" as a choice for date of departure.
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#8The title is a little misleading. The screenshot shows that Google is showing that "prices will likely increase" which is different than the "fares will increase" in the title. "fares might increase" would be more appropriate here.
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#9I wonder if the airlines will start gaming thing. Seeing what people are being told and doing the opposite to catch them off guard.
I think at least JetBlue is already trying to do this.
This is the daily price graph for a recent flight I was watching. Often the price was changing hugely multiple times per day.
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#10Almost every site offers this. Isn't this unhelpful in the last ng run? Consumer behavior will change and the price will smooth out or the window of lower prices will be gone or the percentage of change will become smaller.