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I'm not seeing flight information in my Google search results. Anybody else?

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That was freaking weird. They didn't show up until just now. Maybe there's some kind of rollout effect or something.

Seems to work only with US to US flights. "LGA to ORD" works, "FRA to SIN" and "HAM to TXL" don't.

Works for international flights with one end in the US. (SFO to LHR, SFO to SYD I've tried...)

Actually, it's now working for all flights into Budapest (including from Europe). Looks like they're shooting for the whole ball of wax.

Hm. JFK-FRA works, JFK-SIN doesn't. SFO-(AKL|SIN|BKK|BJS) don't, JFK-WAW doesn't, DEN-MEX doesn't, JFK-YYZ doesn't. So, US-US, US-Western Europe, US-Australia. Strange dataset.

Well it only has nonstop flights, so JFK-SIN shouldn't work (afaik no aircraft has that range). Likewise SFO-SIN, SFO-BKK.

SFO-AKL has direct flights though. I know, I've done it. NZ8. Nice plane.

edit: Actually I checked and "sfo to akl" does in fact give me results.

And I'm just coming back to this thread because I learned something today. There are no flights from Singapore to JFK, but there is one to Newark. It's the longest scheduled air route in the world, at 18 hours and 40 minutes.

Oh, and it's in a 100-seat all-business-class A340-500. I'm guessing they couldn't do it with a fully-laden economy section. Then again I'd hate to fly 19 hours nonstop in economy.

Flights from an airport: http://www.google.com/search?q=flights+from+SFO

Flights to an airport http://www.google.com/search?q=flights+to+SFO

Change SFO to airport code of your choice.

just search "SFO to NYC"

Yeah, I searched "JFK to BUD", which is what interests me. If it's just domestic flights, then wake me when they do something interesting.

I see it. I tried this: flights from nyc to seattle

All I see is schedules of direct flights, making it orders of magnitude less useful than, say, hipmunk.

If it could plot non-nonstop routes and quote me prices for specific days, then it'd be really disruptive. But as it is, if I want to go somewhere surely I'll take the extra few seconds to check a proper travel site?

Did you RTFA? Google's made a recent major acquisition in this field that will give them access to the data you mention, but they haven't had a chance to use it yet; this is a very preliminary product.

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