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A site that analyses flight price fluctuations would be awsome. Currently all the online travel sites work on the assumption that your days are fixed and gives
by hcho 17y ago
A site that analyses flight price fluctuations would be awsome. Currently all the online travel sites work on the assumption that your days are fixed and gives you the prices around that date. A site that would tell me the cheapest time of the year to visit Paris from London would be a lot more useful.
Slightly tangential, how do you access flight price data? Is there a company providing the feeds? How much does it cost?
- mooism2 17y agoSabre and Galileo are the companies I can think of off the top of my head. I don't remember the pricing.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoThe pricing is completely unreasonable. I looked at it a while ago, don't remember the exact figures, but they are based on a very weird system of contracts that severely limits access to this market.
- gaius 17y agoThere used to be EasySABRE (unrelated to cowboys easyJet) which gave you nearly direct access to SABRE data, but it's long since defunct - I think Expedia bought it.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoI believe farecast did something like this. They were bought by Microsoft.
- hcho 17y agoThanks for that. I checked them on bing, the UI does not do their product justice. It look like yet another cluttered travel web site. Another thought, how hard is it for a travel website that I use frequently to infer that I am from London. I booked lots of fligts in and out from this city. Why not make it my default location after while? Cookies and data mining anyone?
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoThat's a good point. It shouldn't be hard for them to do that.
- ig1 17y agoA lot of the big price comparision sites just use screenscraping to avoid the contractual obligations data feeds have. A non-america centric farecast would be good too