<story><title>Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/17/google-flights-will-now-tell-you-when-fares-will-increase-help-you-find-cheaper-tickets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmkg</author><text>Bing Travel had predictions for fare fluctuations for air tickets back in 2009. It was pretty awesome back when I flied a lot, but they apparently killed the feature in 2014. Now Google&amp;#x27;s bringing it back, two years later.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand the future sometimes. ¯\(°_o)&amp;#x2F;¯</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmarbach</author><text>Similarly, the article mentions that Google Flights is now more closely competing with Hopper, a mobile app for finding flights. Hopper already offers this price prediction service, and it is powered by Sabre&amp;#x27;s price prediction API: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.sabre.com&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;read&amp;#x2F;rest_apis&amp;#x2F;air&amp;#x2F;intelligence&amp;#x2F;low_fare_forecast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.sabre.com&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;read&amp;#x2F;rest_apis&amp;#x2F;air&amp;#x2F;intellig...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Disclosure: I own another competing flight search tool, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;concorde.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;concorde.io&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/17/google-flights-will-now-tell-you-when-fares-will-increase-help-you-find-cheaper-tickets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmkg</author><text>Bing Travel had predictions for fare fluctuations for air tickets back in 2009. It was pretty awesome back when I flied a lot, but they apparently killed the feature in 2014. Now Google&amp;#x27;s bringing it back, two years later.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand the future sometimes. ¯\(°_o)&amp;#x2F;¯</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bimr</author><text>The original service was called Farecast before Microsoft bought them.  It used to be very good, but the prediction info gradually became marginalized.  We may never know the truth, but it feels as if Microsoft caved to pressure from the airlines.</text></comment>