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Google has a list of scheduled flights when you put in two airport codes which is useful, doesn't look like DDG does the same.

by ximeng 10y ago

tyingq 10y ago
Google paid $700m to get that functionality though.
- ximeng 10y ago
  This is a significant subset of what ITA does though - just a list of what flights go on each day of the week and at what time. I expect that can be built for significantly less than 700 million, certainly among the popular airports that most people search for. I suspect they might have had it before the ITA purchase as well but not 100% sure. The Google flights search with pricing and custom dates and routes came after ITA was bought I think.
  - tyingq 10y ago
    It's basically QPX. Not just flights and times, but prices as well. It is the most significant part of ITA. Flights, times, and fares is deceptively hard to get right. There's a reason there are only a few providers. Edit: Ahh. If you're saying DDG could get by with just flights and times, and no fares, I see what you mean. That seems to be reflected in the pricing for the FlightStats product vs Google's flight/times/fares API pricing, yes. Parity with Google search requires fares though.
AdamSC1 10y ago
At DuckDuckGo we've got open-source Instant Answers that currently pull in information from over 1100 sources: (https://duck.co/ia https://duck.co/ia) If you know of a good data source for scheduled flights you can easily contribute an Instant Answer, or leave the source as a suggestion for our community!
- ximeng 10y ago
  Sorry I don't know a source... actually I don't think I've seen this on any other sites. Just one of those small things that keeps me with Google.
hedora 10y ago
Here is a reasonable looking service: http://www.flightstats.com/go/Mobile/flightStatusByRoute.do?departure=%28SFO%29+San+Francisco+Intl%2C+San+Francisco%2C+CA%2C+US&arrival=%28JFK%29+John+F.+Kennedy+Intl%2C+New+York%2C+NY%2C+US&airportQueryDate=2017-01-21&airlineToFilter= http://www.flightstats.com/go/Mobile/flightStatusByRoute.do?... It looks like a nice weekend project for someone. I typed in sfo and jfk, but it looks like the java script submitted longer names, so there might be some non-trivial airport name handling to wire in.
- tyingq 10y ago
  Flightstats is a popular service. Not free though: https://developer.flightstats.com/getting-started/pricing https://developer.flightstats.com/getting-started/pricing Similarly, Google sells api access to their flight search api: https://developers.google.com/qpx-express/v1/pricing https://developers.google.com/qpx-express/v1/pricing I have no idea if DDG could leverage either and not wreck their business model.

Google has a list of scheduled flights when you put in two airport codes which is useful, doesn't look like DDG does the same.

by ximeng 10y ago

Google has a list of scheduled flights when you put in two airport codes which is useful, doesn't look like DDG does the same.

tyingq 10y ago

Google paid $700m to get that functionality though.

ximeng 10y ago
This is a significant subset of what ITA does though - just a list of what flights go on each day of the week and at what time. I expect that can be built for significantly less than 700 million, certainly among the popular airports that most people search for. I suspect they might have had it before the ITA purchase as well but not 100% sure. The Google flights search with pricing and custom dates and routes came after ITA was bought I think.
- tyingq 10y ago
  It's basically QPX. Not just flights and times, but prices as well. It is the most significant part of ITA. Flights, times, and fares is deceptively hard to get right. There's a reason there are only a few providers. Edit: Ahh. If you're saying DDG could get by with just flights and times, and no fares, I see what you mean. That seems to be reflected in the pricing for the FlightStats product vs Google's flight/times/fares API pricing, yes. Parity with Google search requires fares though.

AdamSC1 10y ago

At DuckDuckGo we've got open-source Instant Answers that currently pull in information from over 1100 sources: (https://duck.co/ia https://duck.co/ia) If you know of a good data source for scheduled flights you can easily contribute an Instant Answer, or leave the source as a suggestion for our community!

ximeng 10y ago
Sorry I don't know a source... actually I don't think I've seen this on any other sites. Just one of those small things that keeps me with Google.

hedora 10y ago

Here is a reasonable looking service: http://www.flightstats.com/go/Mobile/flightStatusByRoute.do?departure=%28SFO%29+San+Francisco+Intl%2C+San+Francisco%2C+CA%2C+US&arrival=%28JFK%29+John+F.+Kennedy+Intl%2C+New+York%2C+NY%2C+US&airportQueryDate=2017-01-21&airlineToFilter= http://www.flightstats.com/go/Mobile/flightStatusByRoute.do?... It looks like a nice weekend project for someone. I typed in sfo and jfk, but it looks like the java script submitted longer names, so there might be some non-trivial airport name handling to wire in.

tyingq 10y ago
Flightstats is a popular service. Not free though: https://developer.flightstats.com/getting-started/pricing https://developer.flightstats.com/getting-started/pricing Similarly, Google sells api access to their flight search api: https://developers.google.com/qpx-express/v1/pricing https://developers.google.com/qpx-express/v1/pricing I have no idea if DDG could leverage either and not wreck their business model.