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Don't understand businessmodell of price comparison sites for cheap flights/ticket

Discussion in 'General Business' started by broodforge, Aug 21, 2012.

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    Greetings,

    Hope I have posted this in the right forum....=)

    I have heared through friends that a couple of sites earn some big cash by comparing prices on cheap flight tickets.
    However from what I have seen the sites "scrape" all airlines sites and then populate their local database with information...
    Or they query each airline on the fly and display the results?

    But what I can not understand is on what they are making the money from?
    Just dont understand the businessmodell at all.

    Are they using a thirdparty affiliate api and get cash for each sale?
    How to check what they are using?
    I am trying to check by looking at the URLs on "book" button but it think the URL is cloaked.

    One of the sites -
    http://uk.flight24.com/

    Select From and To and view the results. Anyone clever enough to enlighten me?
     
    broodforge, Aug 21, 2012 IP