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Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B

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Re: Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B

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Post by brianbreslin »

scotth wrote: post #59
casca wrote: post #55

Kayak and Hipmunk get a lot of praise for their UI but if you want to use a hacker interface for finding flights, http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ is the way to go. It's not as pretty, but is incredibly feature-rich, not limited to the US and regularly finds me prices that are significantly cheaper than anyone else.

Have you tried out Google Flights? I've been told it's based on this same technology, and has a much better UI. And be sure to click around. It has some interesting tools, like prices for flights to your destination flown out of nearby airports.

wow google flights is super fast!

Re: Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B

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Post by brianbreslin »

TillE wrote: post #67
antoko wrote: post #10

Kayak is great (was?) but Hipmunk is more than up to the task of filling the void if Priceline ruin Kayak. Congrats to the Kayak folks I guess, when they got into the industry they really raised the bar. Before Kayak I remember having to use Expedia and Orbitz and just having to accept their crappy UI because there simply were no alternatives.

I see Hipmunk still doesn't track budget airlines in Europe (eg, EasyJet). Which makes it fairly useless to me, and absolutely not a replacement for Kayak.

Do any flight search tools track budget airlines?

Re: Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B

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Post by thezilch »

TillE wrote: post #70
thezilch wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.google.com/flights/?hl=en&gl=us#search;f=LAX;... versus http://www.hipmunk.com/flights/LAX-to-SFO#!dates=Nov09,Nov16... I respect what Hipmunk is trying to do, but I really doubt they are filling voids outside of "this" community. I find it much harder to scan, slower to load, and having lower quality tools for finding alternate (or cheaper) fares.

I tried the Google tool... "Sorry, flights from Germany are not currently supported." "Sorry, flights from Italy are not currently supported." "Sorry, flights from United Kingdom are not currently supported." Wonderful. I can find flights from New York to London, but not vice versa.

It's interesting, considering they will provide round-trip flights and list the London to NY flight(s) as a separate item, which would make me think the data is there.

Re: Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B

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Post by wakeless »

brianbreslin wrote: post #72
TillE wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see Hipmunk still doesn't track budget airlines in Europe (eg, EasyJet). Which makes it fairly useless to me, and absolutely not a replacement for Kayak.

Do any flight search tools track budget airlines?

Adioso was adding a lot of budget airlines up until recently. It's worth checking out.

Re: Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B

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Post by spez »

casca wrote: post #55

Kayak and Hipmunk get a lot of praise for their UI but if you want to use a hacker interface for finding flights, http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ is the way to go. It's not as pretty, but is incredibly feature-rich, not limited to the US and regularly finds me prices that are significantly cheaper than anyone else.

FYI - you can access most of ITA's routing language on Hipmunk, if you type :: after an airport code. The advantage of using us is we can make you a booking link to actually purchase the itinerary.

Re: Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B

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Post by spez »

TillE wrote: post #67
antoko wrote: post #10

Kayak is great (was?) but Hipmunk is more than up to the task of filling the void if Priceline ruin Kayak. Congrats to the Kayak folks I guess, when they got into the industry they really raised the bar. Before Kayak I remember having to use Expedia and Orbitz and just having to accept their crappy UI because there simply were no alternatives.

I see Hipmunk still doesn't track budget airlines in Europe (eg, EasyJet). Which makes it fairly useless to me, and absolutely not a replacement for Kayak.

Hipmunk does have EasyJet, in fact.

For example: http://www.hipmunk.com/flights/BCN-to-CDG#!dates=Dec31

Re: Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B

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Post by zalew »

photorized wrote: post #49
zalew wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm working on a travel (many)weekend(s) project myself yet to launch, so I won't be too harsh, but... :P I put Warsaw in, and the suggested airports were Okecie (correct) and Babice (it's in Krakow), Modlin was missing. And all the result were in the USA. I like the design theme with all the backgrounds etc. and the logo, cool idea. You should leave some way to contact you with feedback on the page. Keep on, good lu…

zalew: try again, I added it. Apparently that airport just opened in July 2012, and formerly was a disused military airfield? That's why I didn't have it. Thanks again.

    WMI — Warsaw-Modlin
    WAW — Okecie
    EPBC — Babice
modlin now appers, but still don't know what babice are doing there :) yep, as I said, it was just recently opened as a passenger airport, and major european discount brands fly from there so by now it should be in every db.

if you want me to help you sort out these issues, feel free to drop me an email; I've had various ideas around travel websites (the one I'm working on is not competing with yours) so I'll be happy to test it out or just chat.

Re: Priceline.com acquires Kayak for $1.8B

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Post by oh_sigh »

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #73
smattiso wrote: post #16

Relative volatility of KYAK was 3x the normal amount during the day. The news was released after hours. Long live insider trading!

Insider trading sends important price signals to the market. The alternative is LESS information.

That's completely idiotic, and I hope you feel ashamed of what you wrote.

The problem isn't more or less information, it's that insider trading creates two classes of people: Those select few "in the know" who can reap massive profits by getting an illegal phone call, and the suckers.

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