[moftz]

What would your application offer that Google Flights can't do? I have a pretty good experience using Google for researching and either booking or being linked to a booking site. I can bypass Priceline (and it's child companies) and get linked directly to the airline I need. Only times I have a bad experience is when the price on Google Flights doesn't match the actual price that the airline shows on their site but this is rare.

Not seeing Southwest flights is a downside but everyone is at this disadvantage from what I can tell. It's not a huge deal; if Southwest doesn't fly directly between the two cities, you are better off finding another airline.

Something I do want to see is something that combines Google Flights results and tools (flexible airports and dates) along with Skiplag's results. Google has a nice interface and great tools but Skiplag has that extra intelligence that helps you with one-way tickets.

I recently booked some flights to Europe to meet up with friends. I didn't want to fly their itinerary since it had gone up in price by a lot so I used Google Flights to find other European cities I could fly to and then fly from to meet up with my friends. My dates were flexible and both my origin and destination were flexible. I just needed to get to Europe as cheap as possible (getting around Europe is relatively cheap) and be in the right city on a certain day. One feature that would be good to have is a way to create a larger itinerary that involves round-trip tickets. Google Flights does all one-way tickets when you try to do a multi-city trip.

One interesting thing to have would be some sort of metric on how well the airline is performing. I originally booked a flight to Brussels on Wow Airlines. Imagine my surprise when they went out of business a week later and weren't offering refunds to Americans. Being able to see a small red flag that says "Hey, this airline is going bankrupt" would be pretty handy.

[rutledjw]

If you booked via credit card, protest. you have a 90-day window. You should get your cash back. Doesn't matter what the airline says. This is part of the agreement between Merchants - Banks - Visa/MC.

You'll get that $ back, granted, you still have to buy a more expensive ticket. Still, it's something

[moftz]

I did do a chargeback with my venture card and thankfully got it all back. Luckily I found flights to an even better destination on Air Italy for cheaper than what Wow Air ended up being. The starting price for Wow Air was pretty cheap but after you pay for all the extras, it cost more than other flights that include all of those features.

[rutledjw]

Ha. The irony of the ultra-LCC carriers. #eyeroll

[gesman]

I wonder the magic CostcoTravel does.

10 days trip to Italy, 4 stars hotel in Florence, business class flight in Air France including business class transfers both way $7700 - for 2 people - ALL above included.

Try to book this thing via Google or any other means

[metanoia]

That's good old negotiation and group purchasing there. No fancy tech required, just a relatively performant CRUD app and integration into travel GDS (reservation) systems.

[mandeepj]

> "Hey, this airline is going bankrupt" Ha ha. How many times have this happened so far?