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Comparing travelocity and kayak is interesting, but the best flight scheduling interface is ITA's demo app (seems to be down right now): http://matrix.itasoftw
by pskomoroch 18y ago
Comparing travelocity and kayak is interesting, but the best flight scheduling interface is ITA's demo app (seems to be down right now):
http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ http://matrix.itasoftware.com/
It gives a color coded matrix of flights, and all the info is captured in one screen. I think orbitz and others use their optimizer as a backend.
- wallflower 18y agoThis has been referenced before on News.YC; this is an interesting paper about the design and implementation of ITA's optimizer. "Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning" by Carl de Marcken (2003) http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-complexity/ITA-software-travel-complexity.pdf http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...