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Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data

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Re: Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data

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Does anyone know if they are shutting down their legacy consumer web portal? By which I mean this: https://matrix.itasoftware.com Please, dear lord I hope not since it's by far my favorite tool to write complex queries to figure out itineraries and pricing for trips.

Also my biggest concern. ITA Matrix is a godsend, and Google Flights does not have feature parity.

Re: Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data

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Does anyone know a good API for schedules? Most focus on fares which are much more complicated (routing, agreements, availability). I'd like to just get the information of which flights are scheduled. The information is readily available from airports and airlines but so far I haven't found an (appropriately priced) API.

Re: Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data

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From [1]: "On April 8, 2011, the US Department of Justice approved the buyout (of ITA by Google). As part of the agreement, Google must license ITA software to other websites for five years." Now that five years are up, Google would want to deny competitors access to that data. Seems like a good startup opportunity. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software

Reminds me a few google employers posts on HN responding to the usual 'google closes products often': we dont, and we never closed a business products, only unimportant consumer ones. Yeah, sure. Google is heading Microsoft 199x way - fastly becoming public enemy no 1.

Cute language. So just to be clear, you're putting Google ahead of North Korea, ISIS, et al on the list of threats to humanity?

Re: Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data

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Reminds me a few google employers posts on HN responding to the usual 'google closes products often': we dont, and we never closed a business products, only unimportant consumer ones. Yeah, sure. Google is heading Microsoft 199x way - fastly becoming public enemy no 1.

Cute language. So just to be clear, you're putting Google ahead of North Korea, ISIS, et al on the list of threats to humanity?

I think it's odd to even include ISIS on any list of "threats to humanity." How many orders of magnitude could more damage could Google do by accident compared to ISIS?

Re: Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data

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post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me a few google employers posts on HN responding to the usual 'google closes products often': we dont, and we never closed a business products, only unimportant consumer ones. Yeah, sure. Google is heading Microsoft 199x way - fastly becoming public enemy no 1.

Cute language. So just to be clear, you're putting Google ahead of North Korea, ISIS, et al on the list of threats to humanity?

Clearly the OP meant in the context of anticompetitive action the tech industry, not including foreign (at war) countries that have concentration camps. This kind of snark really takes away from the discussion.

Re: Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data

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post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me a few google employers posts on HN responding to the usual 'google closes products often': we dont, and we never closed a business products, only unimportant consumer ones. Yeah, sure. Google is heading Microsoft 199x way - fastly becoming public enemy no 1.

Cute language. So just to be clear, you're putting Google ahead of North Korea, ISIS, et al on the list of threats to humanity?

How is ISIS top 2 on your list of threats to humanity? They are at best a regional threat. Google can do considerably more damage on a global scale.

Re: Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data

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Cute language. So just to be clear, you're putting Google ahead of North Korea, ISIS, et al on the list of threats to humanity?

How is ISIS top 2 on your list of threats to humanity? They are at best a regional threat. Google can do considerably more damage on a global scale.

They literally just killed eight people on a path that I bike down all the time. Your comment is poorly timed.

Also, I can't take you seriously when you're saying that Google can do considerably more global damage than IS. Think a little bit more before speaking. IS has directly been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and many more injuries, and has severely curtailed the rights of millions of people in the afflicted regions that it took over. Those are all people like you and I, and what happened to them matters. There's just no comparison between that and you losing access to some API. Boo hoo.

Re: Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data

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How is ISIS top 2 on your list of threats to humanity? They are at best a regional threat. Google can do considerably more damage on a global scale.

They literally just killed eight people on a path that I bike down all the time. Your comment is poorly timed. Also, I can't take you seriously when you're saying that Google can do considerably more global damage than IS. Think a little bit more before speaking. IS has directly been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and many more injuries, and has severely curtailed the rights of millions of people in…

Literally hundreds/thousands of people are killed by our own citizens every day, I'm not concerned with an additional 8. Google has the ability to negatively affect hundreds of millions of lives on a global scale over a significantly long term. ISIS is not even in the same ballpark.

Re: Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data

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For anybody looking for an alternative, there is Fareportal, which has a full featured API for flights with both search and booking ability. https://www.fareportallabs.com/Home/DownloadDocs#0 I'm happy to answer questions as I'm helping several companies switch over to Fareportal at the moment.

Hey there, need flight info for delayed flights in EU ? My 3 usd subscription to flight stats[1] give me just 3 days history and no room for more fine tunning [1]( https://i.imgur.com/nOjjPjE.png )

Fareportal is not for live flight data, only bookings in advance.
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