Flight Search Tools
Cluster focuses on comparisons, recommendations, and discussions of flight search engines and aggregators like Google Flights, Hipmunk, Kayak, Skyscanner, and others, highlighting features such as flexible dates, agony sorting, and booking options.
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It's great for cheap airlines. For major carriers there are better tools (e.g. ITA Matrix).
See my reply above, it's Google Flights: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14134580
This sounds like it'd be better handled by the private sector having a decent flight aggregator with those details baked in? They're not secret.
It's not a flight booking tool. It's a flight search tool. Once you choose your flight it gives you a list of sites to book the flight on. That list is usually the airline itself and then several intermediarieshttps://imagebin.ca/v/7xebF9JsMnOv
How does this compare to Hipmunk?
Both Hipmunk and Google Flight Search help you sort out bad flights in ways that other websites don't - Hipmunk calls this "agony". To see this in Google Flight Search, scroll down to the bottom of a results list, you'll see something like "123 longer or more expensive flights hidden. Show all." - these are the longer, no less expensive layovers that you probably don't care about.
I remember the sites to search for airplane tickets like Hipmunk, Kayak or Expedia, they have the recognition so perhaps they can add travel planning.
Hipmunk should integrate with this (or buy them or write their own) as soon as possible
Check out Skyscanner - https://www.skyscanner.net/
I've been using Momondo recently, which has all of these tools and a much better UX. This just feels like a re skin of the ITA site and a bit of a poor effort at that.