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I wish I had a suggestion on pricing. If I'm looking for a low-priced fare that would motivate me to travel, I am probably less picky about destination, and po
by quesera 2y ago
I wish I had a suggestion on pricing.
If I'm looking for a low-priced fare that would motivate me to travel, I am probably less picky about destination, and possibly about timeframe.
I.e. there are a dozen places I'd love to go for fun if the opportunity presented itself. I'd even drive an hour or two to another departure airport, if it made sense.
So that's a combinatorial explosion of dep-arr pairs. SFO-*, OAK-*, SJC-*, etc.
At $5/pair/month, my example costs ($5*3*12==$180) per month, which I definitely will not spend. I don't want to limit my alerts, because the three departure origins are functionally equivalent for me, and the 12 arrival destinations are interestingly equivalent enough that I'd regret missing out on a less-obvious pair.
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It's entirely possible that I'm unusual in this. And I get that each pair is a new query/scrape for you. Although it seems likely that, at scale, you'll have enough people from an area that a lot of the pairs are duplicates across users, even considering flexible departure airports.
Good luck, and I hope you'll share your scraping experiences. There are a lot of interesting stories to be told in that business.