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I hate to be the one to ask, but how much moat does this actually have? Couldn't Kayak literally just add a subscribe or alert me later input and have their ma

• bhaile 9y ago
  Some deals require specific starting and end destinations to work properly with a specific carrier. Others can require a stopover in a certain city before continuing on. The really good deals will even be site specific. All this can be done via good expertise. With scraping and this type of logic, you'd get blocked quickly from the major sites.
• morgante 9y ago
  Kayak does have alert notifications. The thing is that if you're looking for a very specific destination, you'll almost never get the best deals. Flight deals work best for people who are very flexible about destination and timing.
  • akg_67 9y ago
    Second this. Some of my friends and I use Scott's emails to discover cheap fares to any destination. We typically don't have any specific destination in mind. When one of us sees Scott's email with attractive deal, we check Google flights for appropriate dates (typically 7-10 days trip) and ping each other to see who is interested in that trip and dates. Then we just book flights typically within 2-6 hours of receiving email. Afterward we research the destination, decide rest of the itinerary for the trip, and book AirBnBs. We call it travel easter egg hunting.
• biztos 9y ago
  I use Kayak and Google as starting points for every flight search, and I still spend hours and hours finding good fares on good routes. This is just anecdotal, but if neither Kayak nor Google gets it right enough for me to use them end-to-end, I suspect there's a lot of room for a high-touch, human-intervention kind of searching.