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   by almacmillan 14y ago

   I think the issue is that ITA, Skyscanner et al who built their own tech freed themselves from slow old GDS platforms (which were ancient mainframes and designed for travel agents). They consume the schedules, the fare rules and then they w
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   by almacmillan 14y ago

   An affiliate is an incentivised partner but I guess you are talking about how airlines pay travel agents online or offline. However, Adioso are not an online travel agent.
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   by almacmillan 14y ago

   Rubbish! ITA's matrix site is probably the best air search site there is and is just a demo of their api. Yes ITA is expensive but you are paying for search, they don't do booking. But the search is awesome because unlike the collective GDS
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   by almacmillan 14y ago

   Adioso began as a single source for price search to low cost carriers and the low cost carriers are not in the GDS because they won't pay the prices.So I presume they scrape (spider at regular intervals) the low cost carrier prices from the
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   by almacmillan 14y ago

   Ah a GDS romantic. GDS systems suck at search. Tell me? Why can't you even do these type of searches on the Amadeus flight search page? http://www.amadeus.net Maybe you would be kind enough to do a search from somewhere to 'anywhere' or '
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   by almacmillan 14y ago

   They have their own fast, local price cached graph 'wingtip' but it only has data from selected low cost carriers. With this redesign they have felt the need to fill in the gaps via calls to Expedia's api's which are slow.
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   by almacmillan 14y ago

   Totally. Vayant are on the open ended fast query wavelength. Tom links to them in the last paragraph
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   by almacmillan 14y ago

   Nah, in modern flight search, ITA & Vayant take all the raw flight data like schedules, fare rules etc which they buy from companies like OAG and Innovata & IATA. GDS increasingly are nothing more than a source for cacheing prices w
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   by almacmillan 14y ago

   Not true. Skyscanner as just one example lets you search to 'Everywhere' depart 'Any Day' and arrive 'Any Day' and have nearly all the airlines including low cost carriers including ones Adioso don't like 'Ryanair'
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    by almacmillan 14y ago

    Thanks for this series Tom, you guys are trying to succeed in a really challenging technical sector (Travel) and I, for one, really appreciate your honesty. I think that some of the confusion & criticisms I see in other comments are tha
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    by almacmillan 15y ago

    There are 61A videos on ITunes U but it's hard to tell if they are from the Python version of the course? Anyone know if there are videos of the lectures kicking about from past years of the Python version?
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    by almacmillan 15y ago

    We http://www.atomised.coop are a worker's co-operative too and a startup. There are ways to raise finance in the UK certainly because co-ops can have almost any legal structure. e.g we are a limited company with the ability to issue Clas