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Yeah, airfare search is a really bad starting point if you want to start a profitable business without massive startup costs. Hard to get access to data from ai
by robryan 14y ago
Yeah, airfare search is a really bad starting point if you want to start a profitable business without massive startup costs. Hard to get access to data from airlines and a stack of other services competing for the thin margins.
- bigiain 14y agoYep - it's really hard to compete with the airline's own website prices for "simple" ticket purchases, and it's really complicated to automate "complex" ticket purchases; and the travel industry has "corporate travel agents" who've got enough experience to be really good at getting a "close enough to optimum" solution to complex ticketing requirements, and they've got much of the high-margin flight bookings market tied up. (At least, that was the state of play back when I was last involved back in '08…)