New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What is Google Flights' business model and has it changed recently?
Ask HN: What is Google Flights' business model and has it changed recently? 5 by lastofthemojito | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm wondering if anyone has any more info than I do regarding why Google offers Google Flights? As far as I know there's no paid version of the software and Google doesn't take a cut of any sales they refer. It seems like it must cost Google a fair amount of money to run and doesn't have any direct revenue source. I also wonder if anything has shifted recently - I think Google Flights has been around for over a decade, and for most of that time it felt aligned with my interests - simplifying the process of finding the cheapest flights to get me where I want to go. Unfortunately, it has recently seemed degraded in several ways. 1) It doesn't reliably offer round-trips made of 2 one-way tickets from 2 different airlines. 2) It doesn't reliably pick up new destinations. I recently saw an airline added a route that would allow me to...