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Fly for Less

11 points by vasie ago | 4 comments

julianlam [-]

Sounds like Hopper, but AI. Why not just use Hopper?

vasie |root |parent [-]

Hopper is a booking site, we are not. We are a private group not affiliated with any airline group and we scan offers independently. By doing that we can build a database of price observations and can do predictions on it and a bunch of other stuff.

julianlam |root |parent [-]

Yeah Hopper didn't start off as a booking site. Just a private group not affiliated with any airline group.

vasie |root |parent [-]

The origin, sure. The present is a $35M FTC settlement this week over hidden fees. We are betting the other model ages better.