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The Hipmunk display is really aimed at making it easy to pick the best option time-wise when there are multiple options at roughly the same price.

OTOH, what really put me off Hipmunk was not finding cheapest flights, compared to Kayak. I put in a multi-hop international flight, and Hipmunk is giving me $4479 vs $1786 on Kayak. That basically means "do not use" to me.

My search: NYC DXB on Sun, Mar 20 DXB MEL on Thu, Mar 24 MEL NYC on Mon, Apr 04

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We don't have Emirates at the moment. We should have the same prices as everyone else in the US, but we're still growing our international coverage.

That is the thing that worries me with all these meta search sites. No one is announcing who they don't search. So when someone like Kayak gets in a fight with AA, and they disappear from the listing, you better hope you notice it and do your search somewhere else that has AA. Or all this fancy technology is for naught.

There are still holdouts like Southwest so the whole search one and done mantra has not been fulfilled. I do appreciate that Hipmunk is trying to do something different and they recognize clearly that the status quo was "not good enough".

"We don't have Emirates at the moment" ...?

I see Emirates all the time when I search for SFO-BOM

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