Don't know where they're getting their data from. Boston-dublin in Oct is over $1300 on google flight with Aerlingus Same flight directly on the airline's website is $940. Good luck with that, Google.
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Re: Get away with Google Flights
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Bing, Yahoo, and even AOL also have their own travel sites The difference is, if I type WAW to LHR into Google, I get flight listings with prices and availability. You're right that Bing, Yahoo etc. have their own separate travel sites, I've yet to see similar results in their search results.
> The difference is, if I type WAW to LHR into Google, I get flight listings with prices and availability. Yes, and I think that's a Good Thing . Google rightly knows that when I type "WAW to LHR", I want to know about the flight, not about where to find out about that flight.
An implication of this difference is that google probably charges for that convenience by saving your itinerary somewhere and selling it to your insurance company.
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#43I want to be able to search by criteria like "somewhere sunny", "the mediterranean", "somewhere to party in the summer", etc. I thought this was it, but not quite :-(...
Not quite that level but check out Adioso.com. They have a bunch of natural language search queries that work.
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#44I love the flexibility this has and after giving it a serious go I never went back to Kayak. If you know exactly when and where to fly, Kayak is great. But with any uncertainty, Google Flights is better for exploring. Maybe you know when to fly, but not when you want to come back. Or maybe you don't even know where you want to fly, in which case you can get destination suggestions. It's also a lot snappier. Now with…
Google flight search seems to be really good at finding cheap routes, I'm looking at SFO -> Rome, Kayak doesn't even show the Delta flight Google shows: https://www.google.com/flights/#search;f=SFO;t=FCO,CIA;d=201...
Delta flight on Google is $1293, $1840 on Kayak
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#45Awesome. I can never understand what antiquated database and UI the other flight reservation websites are using. Simple database queries take 10+ seconds, and then you have to click N more times to get the taxes included. Why can't I query for SELECT * FROM tickets WHERE sqrt((destination_latitude-desired_latitude)^2 - (destination_longitude-desired_longitude)^2) with proper geoindexing and sharding this query should…
It is my understanding that they contact various providers in real-time, so they give them a time window to come back with their data.
Re: Get away with Google Flights
#46Don't know where they're getting their data from. Boston-dublin in Oct is over $1300 on google flight with Aerlingus Same flight directly on the airline's website is $940. Good luck with that, Google.
How does SkyScannner compare for that flight: http://www.skyscanner.net/ I've always found them to be good.
they're on the money, same as Kayak
Re: Get away with Google Flights
#47I love the flexibility this has and after giving it a serious go I never went back to Kayak. If you know exactly when and where to fly, Kayak is great. But with any uncertainty, Google Flights is better for exploring. Maybe you know when to fly, but not when you want to come back. Or maybe you don't even know where you want to fly, in which case you can get destination suggestions. It's also a lot snappier. Now with…
The best thing about Google Flights is how fast it is. The +/- 3 days (or whatever) options are never really exactly what you want, and while Google Flights also doesn't let you execute really powerful searches, you can at least manually search at a rapid pace (10 seconds on other sites).
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#48Awesome. I can never understand what antiquated database and UI the other flight reservation websites are using. Simple database queries take 10+ seconds, and then you have to click N more times to get the taxes included. Why can't I query for SELECT * FROM tickets WHERE sqrt((destination_latitude-desired_latitude)^2 - (destination_longitude-desired_longitude)^2) with proper geoindexing and sharding this query should…
It is my understanding that they contact various providers in real-time, so they give them a time window to come back with their data.
Yeah, this is terrible engineering design IMHO. The providers should just provide some kind of firehose of updates to the booking websites which can then cache the data appropriately.
Also they should fix their cache implementations. I've had countless times on the AA website where it says a ticket is available; then when I try to book it it says it's not available; then when I go back to the home page and search again the same fare shows up again. Seriously, where do their programmers come from ...
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
This site allows users to search for hidden city ticketing. There are some good instruction pages out there. I've never personally used it since I live in Canada and spoke and hub isn't really a thing up here.
All sorts of fun games on ITA. Another good one is to set very long connection times, to get a 23 hour stopover in an interesting city for free.
It's not always a scam to do this; Cathay Pacific seems to give you a discount if you spend a day in Hong Kong.
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#50Was it updated? I spent my whole evening yesterday planning the trip.