[zmmmmm]

Wow, I got a totally unexpected feeling of joy of getting immediate, concise results from a flight search instead of the usual drag of navigating through 3 - 4 screens and getting long waits, pestered with ads, special offers, etc. If Google can link this to actual bookings then they are on to something huge, especially if they tie it into their other services (think - book flight, have it appear in your calendar with maps in the entry etc.). More or less like TripIt but more integrated and convenient.

[masklinn]

> Wow, I got a totally unexpected feeling of joy of getting immediate, concise results from a flight search instead of the usual drag of navigating through 3 - 4 screens and getting long waits, pestered with ads, special offers, etc.

Had you never tried hipmunk before this?

[pushingbits]

There's also http://www.skyscanner.net, which does not seem to get much love around here, even though it was doing flight search well before hipmunk even got started.

It's especially good if you want to do an open-ended search, as in you know where you are leaving from and which month you might want to leave, but you're flexible as to where you want to go.