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What is the best flight search these days?
by rebelidealist 10y ago
What is the best flight search these days?
- chris_7 10y agoITA Matrix.
- joelrunyon 10y agoGoogle flights or matrix.itasoftware.com (you can't book here though)
- saurabhjha 10y agoI also use google flights but I thought google flights was created after Google acquired ITA software. Isn't it ITA's backend behind google.com/flights?
- dboreham 10y agoYes.
- chris_7 10y agobookwithmatrix.com
- blahshaw 10y agoGoogle Flights is simply a pretty UI around matrix.itasoftware.com, no?
- wxs 10y agoThe matrix has nice features like flexible dates on a multi-leg trip that Google Flights doesn't offer.
- mbesto 10y agoGoogle Flights has gradually added ITA Matrix stuff over time.
- joelrunyon 10y agoYou can nerd out a lot more with Ita about specific routing and airlines
- joshwa 10y agoI use this userscript to book directly from ITA matrix: https://github.com/SteppoFF/ita-matrix-powertools https://github.com/SteppoFF/ita-matrix-powertools
- underyx 10y agoDisclaimer: I work at Kiwi.com. At https://kiwi.com https://kiwi.com we combine flights ourselves instead of just taking the combinations from the big guys, you should try it out with a few queries. Not being limited to airline agreements when connecting flights can really drive the price down or make obscure routes viable.
- op00to 10y agoWho protects the consumer when weather or FAA traffic management makes you miss your connecting flight?
- r00fus 10y agoObviously adequate connection time between flights is an important factor. Especially important if you're traveling with kids.
- underyx 10y agoGlad you asked. We do: https://www.kiwi.com/us/content/guarantee https://www.kiwi.com/us/content/guarantee Apparently the rewrite of this dry wall of text is not live yet, so let me paraphrase: You contact us and we book you the flight that gets you to your destination the earliest (if needed we pay for a taxi or bus or anything to get you to another airport if needed.)
- ropiku 10y ago
- jmarbach 10y agoDisclaimer: I created Concorde. Concorde — Discover cheap flights to hundreds of destinations worldwide: https://concorde.io https://concorde.io
- hueving 10y agoYou mention mileage runs, but is there an option to only receive email alerts about cheap airfare for a particular airline?
- jmarbach 10y agoCurrently the email notifications are triggered based on your home airport. If we post a deal from one of your home airports, we send you an email. However, as I continue to develop the site, I intend to offer more granular settings for receiving email notifications, similar to more granular settings for the Discovery results as well.
- bhaile 10y agoInteresting. Played around with it. -What does creating an account provide? -Do you plan on allowing for filters by price, airline and alliance? -Do you pull in deals similar to what is in Flyertalk's Mileage Run forums since many are time limited there? -I'll be checking it for my next flight now. :)
- jmarbach 10y agoThanks for checking it out! 1. By creating an account, you can search from your home airport to hundreds of destinations worldwide. 2. Yes, the filters you propose are very achievable in the near-term, meaning that I already have the data, I just need to create the appropriate front-end for viewing it. 3. Exactly. The quality of the deal is intended to be mileage-run worthy, but not necessarily everyone wants to earn miles. I've found a lot of people just want a cheap and fun vacation spot that is somewhere far from home. Please let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions for improvement! Thanks!
- mbesto 10y agoGoogle Flights. I fly 3-4 times per month and it's godsend.
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- matwood 10y agoI used to use Hipmunk for the graphical view, but mainly use Google flights now. It's super fast, and it is more easily viewed on my phone.
- prawn 10y agoI've been using Kayak recently and have found it to be very good. Relied on their price forecasting tip on one flight the other month. It advised waiting until the last few days to buy, and that paid off.
- Grue3 10y agomomondo.com is the best I found. Not sure how it works for US flights though, since I mostly fly in Europe.
- flystein 10y agoHuman-powered search like https://flystein.com https://flystein.com usually beats any automated meta-search on international flights. Human experts could apply many saving strategies while aggregators are just started to try only few and in very limited way. For example some search engines now also search in different markets/currencies or propose split ticketing ("hacker fares"), etc. Complexity of flight search is too high to fully automate everything, and some airlines like SouthWest don't even allow meta-search to show their flights.