Includes Southwest Airlines flights!
And low cost in Europe (e.g. Easyjet) which aren't usually aggregated in flight search.
Google Launches Flight Search
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Warning to anyone in any lucrative market, you will have competition.
no this is different...with your competition you are more or less on a level playing field. With Google, they get to always place their stuff before you. which means on the back end much lower traffic for the companies, which in turn drives down the rates you can charge for the leads.
Search engine traffic isn't the only source of publicity. Google Flight Search isn't going to be first in a search for 'hipmunk', nor anywhere on the first page.
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#33I still think that hipmunk ( http://www.hipmunk.com/ ) does a better job.
Hipmunk only shows the flights that have tickets to sell through their partners. Google has a lot more in terms of schedules.
Aye, mostly true. But Google doesn't tell you anything about whether the fares are available at all, or what they would cost—it's possible a flight's sold out or prohibitively expensive.
They also don't have mascot, or hotel search ;)
I'll leave it there.
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Hm. JFK-FRA works, JFK-SIN doesn't. SFO-(AKL|SIN|BKK|BJS) don't, JFK-WAW doesn't, DEN-MEX doesn't, JFK-YYZ doesn't. So, US-US, US-Western Europe, US-Australia. Strange dataset.
Well it only has nonstop flights, so JFK-SIN shouldn't work (afaik no aircraft has that range). Likewise SFO-SIN, SFO-BKK. SFO-AKL has direct flights though. I know, I've done it. NZ8. Nice plane. edit: Actually I checked and "sfo to akl" does in fact give me results.
And I'm just coming back to this thread because I learned something today. There are no flights from Singapore to JFK, but there is one to Newark. It's the longest scheduled air route in the world, at 18 hours and 40 minutes.
Oh, and it's in a 100-seat all-business-class A340-500. I'm guessing they couldn't do it with a fully-laden economy section. Then again I'd hate to fly 19 hours nonstop in economy.
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#35Wow, I got a totally unexpected feeling of joy of getting immediate, concise results from a flight search instead of the usual drag of navigating through 3 - 4 screens and getting long waits, pestered with ads, special offers, etc. If Google can link this to actual bookings then they are on to something huge, especially if they tie it into their other services (think - book flight, have it appear in your calendar wit…
> Wow, I got a totally unexpected feeling of joy of getting immediate, concise results from a flight search instead of the usual drag of navigating through 3 - 4 screens and getting long waits, pestered with ads, special offers, etc. Had you never tried hipmunk before this?
There's also http://www.skyscanner.net, which does not seem to get much love around here, even though it was doing flight search well before hipmunk even got started.
It's especially good if you want to do an open-ended search, as in you know where you are leaving from and which month you might want to leave, but you're flexible as to where you want to go.