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Re:A flight search engine that combines flights from differe... by neilv on Friday September 20, 2024 @12:49PM (#41603689)
Is Google Flights based on the ITA Software acquisition?
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Re:A flight search engine that combines flights from differe... by umeshunni on Friday September 20, 2024 @12:54PM (#41603715)
Yes, you can think of Google flights as a scaled front end on top of the ITA data.
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Re:A flight search engine that combines flights from differe... by garaetjjte on Friday September 20, 2024 @05:57PM (#41605864)
Is this actually true? For example Ryanair flights will show up on Google Flights, but not on ITA Matrix.
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Re:A flight search engine that combines flights from differe... by umeshunni on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @12:58PM (#41649445)
I believe (and it's been ~4 years since I left Google) that ITA is one of the data sources, but there are now direct API connections with some providers.
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