Originally Posted by
lensovet
in the vein of weird results, I’ve seen cases where searching with a wider scope somehow makes flights show up that should have been shown with a more narrow one. for example searching for flights from EWR to ATH on SK would only show me itineraries with ridiculous layovers in CPH, but somehow adding JFK to the starting city (like “EWR,JFK”) made it find flights from EWR with quite reasonable layovers.
Is Google Flights based on the same technology now? I have noticed the same with Google Flights recently.