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Behind the Fiendish Complexities of Airfare Pricing
- kmt 19y agoThose guys have built a business around an NP-hard problem. Is anyone here working on solving hard computational problems and thinking of building a business around it?
- aston 19y agoI think the bigger story is less about computationally hard problems, but about 1) finding a problem being solved the wrong way by the world and setting out to solve it the right way 2) the pains of dealing with all of the proprietary (and often annoying) deals and details in a well-established industry. PS: It's easy to miss, but the interesting link here is http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-complexity/img0.html http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...
- Tichy 19y agoIs there a way to access the airfares data as an individual?
- neilc 19y agoAccording to http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-complexity/img1.html http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com... : "The search engines run on databases of flights, prices, and seat availability, provided electronically over private networks by the 800 or so airlines of the world. The data is not directly available to the general public and access often must be negotiated with individual airlines [...] A large portion of the flight, price and seat availability data, called published data, is used by all the major search engines, but a significant amount of private data is restricted."
- Jd 19y agoAnyone else see the toilet advert? Very disturbing...