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From the FAQ: ITA Software does not market a consumer oriented flight search site. That's probably not completely true. Matrix, although not a booking site,
by vlad 16y ago
From the FAQ:
ITA Software does not market a consumer oriented flight search site.
That's probably not completely true. Matrix, although not a booking site, is one of the better flight search sites, allows consumers to find the cheapest time to leave and come back in a given month for a particular number of days of travel.
http://matrix2.itasoftware.com http://matrix2.itasoftware.com
- amirmc 16y agoThat's fantastic! Thanks for the link. I've been wondering if there was something like that for a while. I hope Google leave it as it is (or improve it).
- bl4k 16y agoNot only will they leave it, this is the most important part for Google. I expect that they will spin it into a 'Google Travel' product and take over the travel market pronto
- teamonkey 16y agoI would expect it to be fully integrated into Google Maps. You can already find a route from A to B using other forms of public transport.
- pjob 16y agoBing has been doing something like this for a little while now (through their acquisition of farecast.) Check it out: http://www.bing.com/travel/flight/flexibleTravel?dm=07%2F02%2F2010&p=1&tvl_t=graph&form=FORMTRVLGENERIC&o=BOS&e=LAS http://www.bing.com/travel/flight/flexibleTravel?dm=07%2F02%...
- kiwidrew 16y agoAlthough it's a bit of a reach to say that they "market" matrix/matrix2... It isn't terribly nice to use, they don't actively promote it, and they don't allocate it very much processing power. That being said, I have always gotten the impression that they maintain it as a sort of testbed -- a huge number of Flyertalkers use matrix for very esoteric queries, and I'd imagine the feedback that ITA gets from those users is invaluable.