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This is actually very difficult. The data has to be sourced from somewhere, which would be the airlines. The airlines have fragile backends that cannot handle m
by CardenB 7y ago
This is actually very difficult. The data has to be sourced from somewhere, which would be the airlines. The airlines have fragile backends that cannot handle much load. As a result, Google has to be very selective in their query volume, so they try to cache intelligently.
The result is that sometimes the information they display can be out of sync with airlines. You should notice this issue more on rarer flight routes.
- purple_ducks 7y ago> The data has to be sourced from somewhere, which would be the airlines. Such nonsense. Pretty much all airlines don't own/run the source of truth for their flights and haven't for decades. They outsource that to GDS[1] such as Sabre and Amadeus. Their backends are not fragile. You just have to pay for every query thus the caching. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system