signol From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2007, 2948 posts, RR: 7 Posted (1 year 11 months 4 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 2452 times:
I've just noticed a new feature on Google'a search engine. Enter:
"flights from LON to EDI"
And the full scheduled non-stop timetable is displayed. Very cool. I wonder where they get the info from?
Apologies if this has been discussed already, nothing came up in a search.
phen From Ireland, joined Oct 2007, 294 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (1 year 11 months 4 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 2297 times:
That really is very handy, I had not noticed it before. Saves a lot of time trying to figure out which airlines serve a particular route. Thanks for sharing!
robffm2 From Germany, joined Dec 2006, 1094 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (1 year 11 months 4 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 2086 times:
Quoting signol (Thread starter): Apologies if this has been discussed already, nothing came up in a search.
Maybe hasn't be discussed here before, but certainly it's a new feature and more than that one of the hottest topics in the travel induxtry as Google bought a company that is also providing other sites (like Expedia) with data.
B747forever From United States of America, joined May 2007, 16574 posts, RR: 11 Reply 4, posted (1 year 11 months 4 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 1777 times:
yxd172 From Canada, joined Feb 2008, 426 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (1 year 11 months 4 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1752 times:
Quoting nipoel123 (Reply 3): Too bad it doesn't show types, for the rest it looks good.
It's also a pain that the javascript 'dropdown' to see the flights doesn't work in Firefox 3.6! No problems with IE though, so I'm guessing they just went for the bulk of the public...
I wonder if it works in Chrome!
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Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21482 posts, RR: 24 Reply 6, posted (1 year 11 months 4 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 1700 times:
Quoting yxd172 (Reply 5): Quoting nipoel123 (Reply 3):
Too bad it doesn't show types, for the rest it looks good.
It's also a pain that the javascript 'dropdown' to see the flights doesn't work in Firefox 3.6! No problems with IE though, so I'm guessing they just went for the bulk of the public...
What "drop down" are you referring to? I have tried both Firefox 3.6 and IE8 and I only see the results as a link in the regular search results which I have to click on to display the flights.
CXfirst From Norway, joined Jan 2007, 2696 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (1 year 11 months 4 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 1686 times:
Quoting yxd172 (Reply 5): It's also a pain that the javascript 'dropdown' to see the flights doesn't work in Firefox 3.6! No problems with IE though, so I'm guessing they just went for the bulk of the public...
I wonder if it works in Chrome!
For me, the Dropdown feature works in IE8, Firefox 3.6, Chrome, and Opera 11.11 (my choice of browser).
Pe@rson From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 18832 posts, RR: 54 Reply 8, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1645 times:
Very useful! Excellent feature.
I notice that it will work when, say, you search for 'flights EDI to IOM' or 'flights from EDI to IOM' (or when use the names rather than IATA codes) but not 'EDI-IOM' or 'EDI to IOM'.
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Quokka From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1641 times:
Indeed a very useful feature for those seeking a non-stop flight. I wonder if Google intend expanding it to flights that require a connection.
For example, I can find flights from PER to places like SIN, DXB, AKL or BNE, but if I want to fly on to CMN, HAM or LST it requires two separate searches.
yxd172 From Canada, joined Feb 2008, 426 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 1607 times:
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 6):
What "drop down" are you referring to? I have tried both Firefox 3.6 and IE8 and I only see the results as a link in the regular search results which I have to click on to display the flights.
For me, in IE7 when I click on the link a schedule of non-stop flights drops down in the search results area - when I do the same in Firefox, nothing (a friend has 3.6 as well and has no issues with it, so it may be a Vista problem or something that I've misconfigured in the past ...
Oh well, either way it's a very nice feature, really interesting to look at competing flight times between different airlines (ex. on YEG-YYZ, all WS flights are within 15 min of AC flights - other than the red-eye, which is 35 min difference! So in this case competition brings good prices, but not much more in terms of flight times.)
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sw733 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6072 posts, RR: 10 Reply 11, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 1597 times:
Quoting phen (Reply 1): aves a lot of time trying to figure out which airlines serve a particular route
Quoting Quokka (Reply 9): for those seeking a non-stop flight
Yep this is the problem - it works with nonstops only. If you want to fly, say, MIA to ORD - Great: 10-12 flights per day. But if you want to fly MIA to HKG, it only provides links since there are no nonstops. Most people don't know if there are nonstops on any given route, so that can be tricky.
Coal From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 1627 posts, RR: 6 Reply 12, posted (1 year 11 months 3 weeks 5 days ago) and read 1515 times:
I like it. Most of the time I log on to OAG (I am lucky to have an account) if I am on desktop, but it's a sluggish site. On mobile I go to Flightstats, but that can be slow too. It works with flights within small Chinese cities, which is what I would use it for (I travel domestically in China 2 - 3x per week on some weeks). They bought ITA Software, so perhaps they're getting the schedules from there (matrix1.itasoftware.com or matrix.itasoftware.com).
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