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	<title>Comments on: American&#8217;s Gold Star for Taking a Step Toward &#8220;Productizing&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: CF</title>
		<link>http://crankyflier.com/2007/05/22/americans-gold-star-for-taking-a-step-toward-productizing/comment-page-1/#comment-1206</link>
		<dc:creator>CF</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 14:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great question.  The problem for travel sites is actually synthesizing all the data.  So Southwest has one group of fares, Alaska another, same with Air Canada, Hawaiian, and now American.  There's no real way to compare apples to apples here because they all use different groupings.

If the distinction was completely fare-based, the travel sites could create their own groupings to make it work, but when there are differentiated products (like with Air Canada), you can't exactly pick it apart.

Let's also not forget that many of these sites run on old school systems that aren't equipped to return more than one fare for each itinerary.  

So I'd like to say that it's coming soon, but the issues are large.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great question.  The problem for travel sites is actually synthesizing all the data.  So Southwest has one group of fares, Alaska another, same with Air Canada, Hawaiian, and now American.  There&#8217;s no real way to compare apples to apples here because they all use different groupings.</p>
<p>If the distinction was completely fare-based, the travel sites could create their own groupings to make it work, but when there are differentiated products (like with Air Canada), you can&#8217;t exactly pick it apart.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s also not forget that many of these sites run on old school systems that aren&#8217;t equipped to return more than one fare for each itinerary.  </p>
<p>So I&#8217;d like to say that it&#8217;s coming soon, but the issues are large.</p>
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		<title>By: Andy</title>
		<link>http://crankyflier.com/2007/05/22/americans-gold-star-for-taking-a-step-toward-productizing/comment-page-1/#comment-1205</link>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 13:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When will the day come that travel sites will show this info?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When will the day come that travel sites will show this info?</p>
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