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ls_tm
12y ago
thanks sadface, it sounds like you have a pretty good grasp of how financial service companies think about risk. i should point out though that as a gambling platform, ours would be a poor one. in order to receive any kind of payout when ai
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12y ago
i just checked, we have the technology to build a drop down list. all kidding aside, that may be something we put in soon but we also plan to add hubs quickly enough that this is not an annoyance for too long
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ls_tm
12y ago
We are currently serving the ten biggest hubs in the US, but we're adding new routes all the time. The beta routes are routes on which we are currently testing/training our pricing algorithm. You can expect to see many of them liv
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12y ago
We also run contests everyday so whoever best predicts future airfare on a particular route will get to use our airfare protection for $1.
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ls_tm
12y ago
Yeah, that was a great article and we certainly are hedging our risk. One major difference in how we do things is we don't need to predict the future price of a particular flight, we need to predict the range of prices and the probabil
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12y ago
thanks! we like it too
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Level Skies – Price protection on airfare. If fares go up, we pay you.
(levelskies.com)
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ls_tm
12y ago
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