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Google needs ITA. The one place where Google is getting spanked by Bing is in travel search. Bing travel is IMHO hands down the best fare search engine out th

Google needs ITA. The one place where Google is getting spanked by Bing is in travel search. Bing travel is IMHO hands down the best fare search engine out there, and I travel a lot. http://matrix.itasoftware.com http://matrix.itasoftware.com site comes in second place for me, even though it looks like crap. It has some insanely useful tools for a mileage runner such as myself. For instance, ITA has a domain specific language that you can use to search for fares. What I use it all the time for, is to find the cheapest fare between two cities on a single airline over the course of the next month.

elai 17y ago
How about kayak? Kayak buzz is extremely useful [not to mention a nice iphone app], and works for all pairs of cities while bing travel only has a limited amount of pairs.
- jfarmer 17y ago
  Both Kayak and Bing are powered at least in part by ITA. Kayak is to Mint as ITA is to Yodlee.
  - byoung2 17y ago
    Better stated: ITA is to Kayak as Yodlee is to Mint
ben1040 17y ago
The ITA tool is pretty awesome from the mileage runner standpoint, although this is kind of a niche market. I've used it for searches like, "find me trips between point A and point B that involve three segments on the outbound and two on the return, all on American." When I wasn't trying to come up with some insane routing just for miles/segments, it still was better at coming up with routes/prices than whatever my old company's corporate travel service used. I would never let them book me anything once I found out I could take five minutes, look on ITA, and more often than not find a more convenient route for less money.
yread 17y ago
Well, I'm not impressed. Try http://www.bravofly.com/vg1/flights.do http://www.bravofly.com/vg1/flights.do . I believe it's the best for trips in Europe
- gaius 17y ago
  Tried my next 2 trips on it, and it's no cheaper than Expedia. Nice slick interface tho'.

elai 17y ago

How about kayak? Kayak buzz is extremely useful [not to mention a nice iphone app], and works for all pairs of cities while bing travel only has a limited amount of pairs.

jfarmer 17y ago
Both Kayak and Bing are powered at least in part by ITA. Kayak is to Mint as ITA is to Yodlee.
- byoung2 17y ago
  Better stated: ITA is to Kayak as Yodlee is to Mint

ben1040 17y ago

The ITA tool is pretty awesome from the mileage runner standpoint, although this is kind of a niche market. I've used it for searches like, "find me trips between point A and point B that involve three segments on the outbound and two on the return, all on American." When I wasn't trying to come up with some insane routing just for miles/segments, it still was better at coming up with routes/prices than whatever my old company's corporate travel service used. I would never let them book me anything once I found out I could take five minutes, look on ITA, and more often than not find a more convenient route for less money.

yread 17y ago

Well, I'm not impressed. Try http://www.bravofly.com/vg1/flights.do http://www.bravofly.com/vg1/flights.do . I believe it's the best for trips in Europe

gaius 17y ago
Tried my next 2 trips on it, and it's no cheaper than Expedia. Nice slick interface tho'.