Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

Re:Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur by raldi on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @09:43PM (#12493705)

Yeah you can be on the phone with the company travel department telling you the United flight at 10:13 doesn't fly between Dulles and New York on Tuesdays, and quickly type FLY IAD NYC<go> and you'll see a line like

    12.    UA 456  10:13 IAD  11:35 LGA   vvvv vv

(Where the v's are checkmarks in day-of-week columns; so you know it flies every day but Thurs)

Then you type 12<go> and get all the details. It all happened as fast as you could type plus about 10msec plus the speed of light roundtrip to lower Manhattan. And in the nine years since I used it, I bet they added other points of presence on other continents.

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Re:Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur by cousin_it on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:09AM (#12494735)

You can get the same info by typing "flight schedule iad nyc" into Google. It gives you a box that shows all flight numbers, takeoff and landing times, airport codes, and which days of the week they fly. (You might need to disable adblock though.)

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Re:Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur by koyote on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:24AM (#12494970)

I just tried that and indeed had to disable uBlock for it to show up.

I wonder how many other Google features I have been missing out on due to adblock being turned on...

Edit: turning off 'cosmetic filtering' on uBlock put it back again.

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Re:Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur by cousin_it on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @01:25PM (#12499228)

This list of Google SERP features is pretty impressive: http://www.link-assistant.com/news/serp-guide.html Though it's still missing tons of stuff like finance, calculator, flight status, etc.

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Re:Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur by awesomerobot on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @09:16AM (#12496515)

Curious if anyone knows: is the Bloomberg terminal interfacing directly with one of the major CRS systems like Amadeus?

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