Re:Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
by purple_ducks on Saturday August 10, 2019 @06:34AM
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> The data has to be sourced from somewhere, which would be the airlines.
Such nonsense.
Pretty much all airlines don't own/run the source of truth for their flights and haven't for decades. They outsource that to GDS[1] such as Sabre and Amadeus.
Their backends are not fragile.
You just have to pay for every query thus the caching.
Such nonsense.
Pretty much all airlines don't own/run the source of truth for their flights and haven't for decades. They outsource that to GDS[1] such as Sabre and Amadeus. Their backends are not fragile.
You just have to pay for every query thus the caching.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system