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Re:Air Fares 101 – Why do fares change all the time? by pacofvf on Monday December 15, 2014 @03:51PM (#8754374)
1. search a flight.

2. search it again.

3. the price has surged.

they don't track individual users, they track the search queries, this makes me wonder if flight search services are just rising the entire market prices, instead of a user only searching once, they constantly search the same query.

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Re:Air Fares 101 – Why do fares change all the time? by eru on Monday December 15, 2014 @06:27PM (#8755096)
> [...] this makes me wonder if flight search services are just rising the entire market prices, [...]

Not in general. The airlines account for that. (Otherwise, if the market could bear a higher price and still get reasonable demand, the airlines would have raised prices to that level in the first place.)

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