I’ve noticed that almost every single airline website feels extremely clunky, simply searching for a single flight route can take a minute to load. However, Google Flights only takes a few seconds and searches across all airlines.
In theory, shouldn’t it take longer for Google to process the information if they need to pull data from so many different airlines?
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In my experience most airline IT systems have been built by lowest cost outsourced IT, and they are layered on top of each other over the years. Every layer adds time and complexity, slowing down results.
Searching for flights is computationally expensive and has to query and process a huge amount of data. Google are experts at this end spend billions to build efficient systems that make this as efficient as possible.
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