Originally Posted by
planes&trains
Without sharing too many details
, Google goes by what the airlines "offer" Google to list. There are two buckets, one, which Google prioritizes, is complied based on the offers the airlines (or OTA) make to Google.
Thanks, but I'm not sure this helped
perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but I don't really see how the above info pertains to what we were discussing above, which was how Google "knows" that fares are likely to go up by x% in y days.
Originally Posted by
planes&trains
The second (which you usually find under "other options" is composed of the search results that are independent of the offer -- they go by the usual criteria such as the distance from the airports selected, connections, duration, cost, the authenticity of the vendor, etc..
I don't even understand what this is supposed to mean. Are you talking about which airline vs. OTA booking options are shown once you pick flights? How is "distance from the airports selected" ever relevant? And how would connections/duration/cost factor into this, since by this point you've already picked a specific set of flights?