Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights

Re:Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights by scotradamus on Friday August 09, 2019 @03:11PM (#20657414)

Then google would buy all those tickets at the reduced value and resell them at the normal price.

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Re:Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights by marcinzm on Friday August 09, 2019 @05:16PM (#20658313)

Tickets are generally non-transferable and cheap ones are non-refundable. So unless google can predict the name of the future buyer it’ll be out of luck.

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Re:Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights by londons_explore on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:11PM (#20658611)

I think they have deals with carriers to bulk buy tickets without giving a name. Carrier gets cash upfront (most are desperate for cash). Google gets to play marketmaker.

The airlines really are shooting themselves in the foot though... Google will end up with the biggest slice of the pie...

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Re:Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights by londons_explore on Friday August 09, 2019 @03:28PM (#20657564)

Except it might be 30 seconds before the plane departs...

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