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Oh, nice. It looks pretty fancy, too. I’m surprised that Google didn’t axe it in favor of Google Flights.
by snazz 8y ago
Oh, nice. It looks pretty fancy, too. I’m surprised that Google didn’t axe it in favor of Google Flights.
- justinpombrio 8y agoI suspect that branding is powerful, so it's better to keep an existing flight search running than to axe it in favor of something else and loose all the existing customers. Google bought ITA and kept matrix.itasoftware.com running with (presumably) the same branding; Booking Holdings bought Kayak and kept kayak.com running with the same branding.
- lkirk 8y agoThe title of the site is "Matrix - ITA Software by Google". Also, on the site, they link themselves: Want to explore flights and get fast results? Try Google Flights Almost seems like a deprecation notice...
- cracauer 8y agoThere are some feature in matrix that flights didn't pick up. The original matrix site was even more powerful and exposed some operator-ishness, depending on what kind of account you were granted.