Google’s New Flight Search Hack
News and notes from around the interweb:
- Couple who tried to escape from Amsterdam tell their side of the story they were detained at the airport and sent into quarantine after one of them tested positive for Covid-19, but four subsequent tests came back negative.
- Amtrak considers dropping BofA as its co-brand card issuer
- My first stop for searching flights – for many years – has been ITA Matrix which is now owned by Google. It was a demonstration site, that doesn’t actually allow for booking (though there was a hacked together tool that would take its results and let you book them). It’s just the quickest and most powerful way to search, whether specifying the exact fare you want or the routing and airlines and then drilling down based on length of trip and other features.
It’s old, and the backend is outdated and not being maintained, but some Googlers are…
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