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This may not be the place or time to ask this but here goes anyway: How do the travel indexing sites like Kayak get their data? Surely they don't index or cons

This may not be the place or time to ask this but here goes anyway: How do the travel indexing sites like Kayak get their data? Surely they don't index or consume APIs from the travel companies individually?

tonystubblebine 14y ago
A company called ITA, now owned by Google. http://www.fastcompany.com/1666092/google-acquires-airline-data-company-ita-get-ready-google-flight-planner http://www.fastcompany.com/1666092/google-acquires-airline-d...
- baltcode 14y ago
  And where does ITA get it's data. I assume there must be a few competing standards, and the airlines use one of them to give their data to ITA. Why can't other companies get the data directly from the airlines?
  - calbear81 14y ago
    ITA get its data from ATPCO (http://www.atpco.net/atpco/aboutatp.shtml http://www.atpco.net/atpco/aboutatp.shtml) the clearinghouse for flight data.
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