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Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights

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Re: Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights

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Post by empath75 »

kasparsklavins wrote: post #69

Why is there no interface that allows searching for flights without specifying exact dates? All I want to do is fly from A to B to A. Maybe stay a week, maybe two. I'm flexible - it doesnt have to be exactly N days starting on the M'th. Even services that "allegedly" advertise they have that, still require manually clicking every day combination. I'd fly more often if it was easy . The few times I tried, it would be…

Skyscanner has this. You don't even need to specify a city:

These are the results for 'cheapest month' and 'everywhere' from DC

https://www.skyscanner.com/transport/flights-from/wasa/?adul...

Re: Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights

#82

Post by empath75 »

micahgoulart wrote: post #46
crikli wrote: post #4

Off-topic but related: https://scottscheapflights.com is _amazing_. The Premium sub is worth every penny...my wife and I will be doing a ton more overseas travel in 2019 purely because of the deals this site finds.

I got into churning airline miles then manufactured spending (generating spend on credit card to earn miles) and now have over 10 million miles. I also heard one of the biggest groups of manufactured spend are developers within Google. I belong to a private slack with over 80 folks doing this as a hobby so we can do first class/business class international travel and hotel stays for free. If anyone is into it as as w…

I'm interested.

Re: Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights

#83

Post by namdnay »

gowld wrote: post #78
yosito wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many airlines require you to have an onward flight out of a country before they will let you fly into it. This allows you to fulfill the technical requirement without having to pay for a plane ticket you aren't planning to use.

Why do airlines allow unpaid reservations? That seems ripe for Denial of Service attack on their booking plans.

A reservation that is not paid is not ticketed. A reservation that is not ticketed is not 100% guaranteed

But I agree that this is till a problem for airline inventory management, and an online travel agency should definitely not be opening this feature to the general public!

There are several usecases that require unpaid reservations, the most common one nowadays is corporate travel, when you need to integrate approval flows - the approval step will be between the reservation and the ticketing.

Like just about every industry, there is a world of complexity hidden underneath the surface :)

Re: Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights

#84

Post by yonkshi »

micahgoulart wrote: post #46
crikli wrote: post #4

Off-topic but related: https://scottscheapflights.com is _amazing_. The Premium sub is worth every penny...my wife and I will be doing a ton more overseas travel in 2019 purely because of the deals this site finds.

I got into churning airline miles then manufactured spending (generating spend on credit card to earn miles) and now have over 10 million miles. I also heard one of the biggest groups of manufactured spend are developers within Google. I belong to a private slack with over 80 folks doing this as a hobby so we can do first class/business class international travel and hotel stays for free. If anyone is into it as as w…

I'd be interested as well, I've written a few private scrapers for *A/OW award search, currently have small scale MS going on, would love to connect with more fellow MS-ers. my email is nopctoday at gmail.

Re: Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights

#85

Post by whitepoplar »

micahgoulart wrote: post #46
crikli wrote: post #4

Off-topic but related: https://scottscheapflights.com is _amazing_. The Premium sub is worth every penny...my wife and I will be doing a ton more overseas travel in 2019 purely because of the deals this site finds.

I got into churning airline miles then manufactured spending (generating spend on credit card to earn miles) and now have over 10 million miles. I also heard one of the biggest groups of manufactured spend are developers within Google. I belong to a private slack with over 80 folks doing this as a hobby so we can do first class/business class international travel and hotel stays for free. If anyone is into it as as w…

Very interested! sierpinski9321 [at) gmail.com

Re: Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights

#86

Post by Redismonkey »

micahgoulart wrote: post #46
crikli wrote: post #4

Off-topic but related: https://scottscheapflights.com is _amazing_. The Premium sub is worth every penny...my wife and I will be doing a ton more overseas travel in 2019 purely because of the deals this site finds.

I got into churning airline miles then manufactured spending (generating spend on credit card to earn miles) and now have over 10 million miles. I also heard one of the biggest groups of manufactured spend are developers within Google. I belong to a private slack with over 80 folks doing this as a hobby so we can do first class/business class international travel and hotel stays for free. If anyone is into it as as w…

Love the intersection between engineering and churning. Long time churner at r/churning and flyertalk. james93472@gmail.com

Re: Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights

#87

Post by Maximus9000 »

micahgoulart wrote: post #46
crikli wrote: post #4

Off-topic but related: https://scottscheapflights.com is _amazing_. The Premium sub is worth every penny...my wife and I will be doing a ton more overseas travel in 2019 purely because of the deals this site finds.

I got into churning airline miles then manufactured spending (generating spend on credit card to earn miles) and now have over 10 million miles. I also heard one of the biggest groups of manufactured spend are developers within Google. I belong to a private slack with over 80 folks doing this as a hobby so we can do first class/business class international travel and hotel stays for free. If anyone is into it as as w…

I'm interested in joining your slack group!

Re: Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights

#88

Post by reverend_gonzo »

micahgoulart wrote: post #46
crikli wrote: post #4

Off-topic but related: https://scottscheapflights.com is _amazing_. The Premium sub is worth every penny...my wife and I will be doing a ton more overseas travel in 2019 purely because of the deals this site finds.

I got into churning airline miles then manufactured spending (generating spend on credit card to earn miles) and now have over 10 million miles. I also heard one of the biggest groups of manufactured spend are developers within Google. I belong to a private slack with over 80 folks doing this as a hobby so we can do first class/business class international travel and hotel stays for free. If anyone is into it as as w…

would definitely be interested... milan ramaiya gmail

Re: Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights

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Post by benmanns »

micahgoulart wrote: post #46
crikli wrote: post #4

Off-topic but related: https://scottscheapflights.com is _amazing_. The Premium sub is worth every penny...my wife and I will be doing a ton more overseas travel in 2019 purely because of the deals this site finds.

I got into churning airline miles then manufactured spending (generating spend on credit card to earn miles) and now have over 10 million miles. I also heard one of the biggest groups of manufactured spend are developers within Google. I belong to a private slack with over 80 folks doing this as a hobby so we can do first class/business class international travel and hotel stays for free. If anyone is into it as as w…

Very interested. Have been churning for awhile - benmanns at gmail.

Re: Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights

#90

Post by Doga007 »

jayalpha wrote: post #25
mtrovo wrote: post #24

I use https://airwander.com/ when flying overseas, I don't know how well it works for low cost airlines though. It's a flight search engine that let you filter what connections there are between the cities you want to travel and help you book a single flight that is going to stay there as a stopover. Sometimes it finds some weird flights that doesn't make any sense if you're just trying to reach your destination but…

Airwanderer would be something I have been looking for a long time but it does not seem to work so well. Also, is it just my browser or why is it so difficult to see the layovers? I have to click on "fight details" to see this. Why? http://www.cleverlayover.com also never worked for me. Good idea, bad executed. Regarding travel websites, you may want to check out: https://www.kiwi.com Sometimes finds insane travel ro…

Suggested stopovers will display if you use the red box with "+" that displays after you type your origin and destination. These cities are specific to your origin/destination, dates and the number of days you plan to stopover. The site predicts and combines separate tickets to find cheap connection cities/countries (with non-partnered airlines).

Hope that helps! Btw, I'm a founder of AW.

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