Budget Airline Ryanair Added to Google Flight Search
February 5, 2014
An article titled Google to Revamp its Flight Search Engine, Ryanair’s CEO Says on ComputerWorld reports on a interview of Michael O’Leary, CEO of budget airline Ryanair. Leary’s interview also included the following insights into the addition of Ryanair into Google’s Flight Search.
The article states:
“According to O’Leary, Google wants to provide route selections as well as cheapest prices of all the airlines. Whoever selects a trip will be able to click on the fares to be led to an airline’s website to purchase tickets, he said. Ryanair’s data will be added to Google’s database in March. The addition of Ryanair, once a fierce opponent of price comparison sites, to Flight Search will absolutely benefit Google, said Henry Harteveldt, a travel industry analyst at Hudson Crossing.”
Competitors such as Skyscanner and Kayak will not be overly hurt by Google’s gain, Hartveldt surmises, since they also offer travel services such as car rentals and hotel options. A spokesperson for Google dampened any of O’Leary’s grandiose language of a revamp, stating that Ryanair was simply being added to the service. Meanwhile Google’s Flight Search (which was launched in 2011 and came to the UK in 2013) has come under fire in Europe for having no travel agency links. Expedia and TripAdvisor filed an antitrust complaint in 2012 with the European Commission, claiming that Google’s search engine gives an unfair advantage to its own services.
Chelsea Kerwin, February 05, 2014
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