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Old Jul 9, 2018, 12:50 am
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what is the best search engine for ba flights and its partners besides ba.com
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Old Jul 9, 2018, 1:16 am
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Basic searches - 100% Google Flights filtered to "oneworld"

For more complex itinerary - ITA Matrix
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Old Jul 9, 2018, 1:20 am
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what is the best search engine for ba flights and its partners besides ba.com
FT!
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Old Jul 9, 2018, 1:27 am
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What is the best search engine for BA flights and its partners besides ba.com
Cash paid tickets or award flights?
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Old Jul 9, 2018, 1:43 am
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Not the Rolls Royce search engine...
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Old Jul 9, 2018, 1:44 am
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I used to use on google flights but the new UI is trash. So I use ITA Matrix for everything now
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Old Jul 9, 2018, 2:30 am
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One major drawback with ITA Matrix (which has only been the case relatively recently), especially as so many good BA fares are ex-EU, is that it no longer permits "journeys with origins in multiple countries".

For example searching for a routing to NYC originating in DUB or AMS or BRU is no longer permitted, whereas it is still permitted on Google Flights.

On the other hand, ITA Matrix does permit a swift change of Point of Sale ("Sales city"), whereas this is trickier with Google Flights.
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Old Jul 9, 2018, 2:34 am
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Google Flights for me. I do like the price tracking feature too.

ITA Matrix was the best, but since some of the recent changes, I now find it wildly unreliable, often returning higher fares than google on relatively simple intinaraties.
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Old Jul 9, 2018, 2:37 am
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Originally Posted by Calum
I used to use on google flights but the new UI is trash. So I use ITA Matrix for everything now
I concur! ITA matrix allows one's searches to be a lot more customised nowadays... The new Google Flights interface is a mess, especially on certain browsers...
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Old Jul 9, 2018, 5:16 am
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Originally Posted by mikeyfly
Basic searches - 100% Google Flights filtered to "oneworld"

For more complex itinerary - ITA Matrix
how do you filter for one world ?
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Old Jul 9, 2018, 5:24 am
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how do you filter for one world ?
On the results screen there are various filters you can apply at the top of the results list
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Old Jul 9, 2018, 6:13 am
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Originally Posted by andyh1877
how do you filter for one world ?
It is under the tab 'airlines' where you can check the oneworld box.

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Old Jul 9, 2018, 9:59 am
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Aww thanks simple eh , matrix a little more complex
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Old Jul 9, 2018, 11:28 am
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I concur! ITA matrix allows one's searches to be a lot more customised nowadays... The new Google Flights interface is a mess, especially on certain browsers...
I don't understand why they have removed classic and forced users to use this awful UI. They have actually made their product worse.
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Old Jul 9, 2018, 2:41 pm
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I don't understand why they have removed classic and forced users to use this awful UI. They have actually made their product worse.
Can you explain why its worse than the classic mode? Using Chrome I haven't run into any issues.
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