Re:Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase
by massysett on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:17PM
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That's the exact sort of scenario you would want a travel agent for--if you can trust the agent to get a good fare.
Re:Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase
by ghaff on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:24PM
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Yeah. I actually have broken down and used our company travel service for this. Then at least it's out of my hands. But usually I have too much sunk cost :-) and have sufficient preferences that I just motor through on my own.
Yep. They're pretty clearly designed for the 99% or so case and just (ungracefully) throw their hands in the air for the other 1% or so.
As you say, it's hard to really make the system do the work around finding a cheap flight within a set of parameters.
I've also spent hours booking complicated multi-destination flights, especially in Asia when you need to use multiple carriers. Simply booking as a series of one-way flights can end up costing thousands of dollars more than something more optimized. So you need to end up manually trying various combinations of one-way and round-trip flights and then piecing together the separate itineraries at the end.