Sitting here booking a flight. Finding a Lufthansa flight, but it’s apparently much cheaper through the United website. Finding a multi-city flight on Google Flights, but other search engines will find you completely different flights, and completely different prices for those same flights.
How tf do this market, these engines, and this pricing work? Extremely confusing, and seems to have gotten worse over time.
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Airlines will vary there prices on tickets day-by-day
The same ticket will cost a different price depending on how full the airplane is, the day, and various other factors including which carrier is reselling the ticket.
They also track you with Cookies, so if you keep going to the same site over and over again they’ll sometimes increase the cost of the ticket with each visit to encourage people to buy immediately.
The search engine checks all these different sites and pulls the ticket info for you in one place, it’s kind cheating the system but in a lot of ways the Airlines don’t care so long as it sells a seat.
The same goes for websites that look for cheap hotel rooms
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