BELLEVUE, WA–(Marketwired – Jan 7, 2014) – Expedia.com®, the world’s leading online travel company, unveiled three new features designed to aid customers through the travel planning process: Flight Recommendations, Scratchpad and Itinerary Sharing.
Flight Recommendations analyzes more than three billion flight searches performed on Expedia.com® and applies insights to real-time customer search queries suggesting alternative airports, dates or time of travel. These options and fares reflect patterns that other anonymized customers have booked recently, and are presented to the customer in a box above the standard search results. For example, there are over 3,000 options when determining a nonstop flight between JFK and LAX on a given day. By tapping into numbers and information like this, also known as big data, Expedia.com can make recommendations on other dates or airports that may be more convenient or cost-effective for travelers. Flight Recommendations is an online travel…
