From USA TODAY:
Google introduced a search tool on Tuesday for shopping for flights that pits the popular search engine against sites such as Travelocity and Kayak
Travelers can search for flights at google.com/flights and filter their flight queries by price, airlines and routes. It also has a bar chart showing which travel dates are more expensive to fly. Google has been offering flight schedules since May.
Google’s move has been expected since it bought flight-data provider ITA Software for $700 million earlier this year…
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EDITOR: This is great news for travelers and for the airlines. For the travelers, it allows the advantage of seeing and choosing the most and thus best flights. For the airlines, the service will draw their passengers to airline web sites rather than to ‘third party’ sites which charge commissions.
Hopefully Google will soon supply the same service for hotels. With ‘third parties’ charging commissions of about 15%, funds are being bled off from hotels to parasitical third parties who to provide little but rate transparency. The 15% can be used for renovations and higher wages.
