Re:Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
by sokoloff on Friday August 09, 2019 @05:13PM
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How many people are in a position to make a purchase decision, buy a ticket, and make the flight when the price drops 33 minutes before departure (13 minutes before boarding ends)?
In June, I was literally in CVG airport (inside of security) when my Delta flight was delayed. I decided not to book a ticket on United that was leaving in ~35 minutes because I wasn't sure that I could get over to the other terminal before boarding closed. (It also wasn't 100% clear that the United flight was going to make the connection in DC because of weather that was also screwing up Delta.)
Re:Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
by aripickar on Saturday August 10, 2019 @10:59AM
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Probably people that miss their flight and are either already in the terminal or past security would like to book it? That’s the only use case I can think of
In June, I was literally in CVG airport (inside of security) when my Delta flight was delayed. I decided not to book a ticket on United that was leaving in ~35 minutes because I wasn't sure that I could get over to the other terminal before boarding closed. (It also wasn't 100% clear that the United flight was going to make the connection in DC because of weather that was also screwing up Delta.)