big news ! hold flights online is increasingly hard and irritating . The reason ? As theNYT explain , many airline are locked in cope catch with fare aggregator like Orbitz and Expedia over who gets paid how much . Either room , we lose .
American and Delta have been the most active in their site - skirting , ducking out of agreements with popular services like those above as well as smaller ones , such as Bookit.com , Airfare.com , and Vegas.com .
Sabre , a big ( behind the view ) connection that routes make out information to booking sites , let American know it ’s backing out of their contract a calendar month early , and will actually go out of their way to make it difficult to discover American Airline flights .
So where to ferment , when there ’s no booking site to rule them all ? The Times suggestsITA Software , which serve up datum to web site like Orbitz ( among many others ) in the first place . Meta - hunting sites likeKayakare also helpful , though again , there ’s no definitive stop .
As long as airlines are so strapped for cash that a checked bag cost $ 25 and a bag of almonds cost $ 5 , smacking fights over fare data contract probably are n’t going to loosen . [ NYT ]
Photo byRene Schwietzke
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