Monday, March 9, 2015

Google Flights and Cincinnati

There was an announcement that Google Flights had improved its flight comparison service.  That was news to me as I didn't even know they had one.  I tried and a couple of clicks later I find a round-trip flight to Cincinnati for $98 on Frontier.

Note:  there's no way I would post this if it were really my intention to fly on April 14.



This is far ahead of any flight service I've tried previously and it's also quite fast.  Google makes a lot of stinkers but this system looks very cool.  There's some artificial intelligence to it as Google Flights searches as you would expect but it also suggests ways to optimize the trip such as reducing the expense by changing the schedule.

Note:  the actual price will add tax and a possible airport fee.  Nevertheless, that's 40% of the best price I had seen previously.


I'm superstitious about flying even though I have flown a lot as most of the flights have been on American, Delta, or QANTAS.  Since they never crashed or at least not with me on-board, these are in my list of Safe Airlines.  And this is why I would be tempted to pay extra for the Delta ticket; I never flew on Frontier because I got enough cowboy flight miles on Continental.

Note:  I think it was a Continental landing in Texas in which the pilot brought the plane in so hard that he bent the fuselage.  This may be the landing in which the granny asked as she exited the aircraft, "Captain, did we land or did they shoot us down?"

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