USING A FLIGHT STATUS CENTRIC VIEW FOR ALTERNATIVE FLIGHT RECOMMENDATIONS

摘要

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining alternative travel itineraries. A method includes obtaining current flight status information for a plurality of flights; using the current flight status information to determine that a user flight itinerary is delayed or cancelled; determining one or more alternative flight itineraries to the user itinerary, including: obtaining a collection of candidate alternative flight itineraries occurring within a specified time frame and that correspond to an origin and destination of the user itinerary, determining current flight status information for the candidate alternative flight itineraries, ranking the collection of candidate alternative flight itineraries according to one or more criteria, and selecting a specified number of the highest ranked candidate alternative flights to generate a group of alternative flight itineraries; and providing one or more of the group of alternative flight itineraries for display on a user device.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
obtaining current flight status information for a plurality of flights; using the current flight status information to determine that a flight itinerary of a user is delayed or cancelled; determining one or more alternative flight itineraries to the flight itinerary that is delayed or cancelled, comprising:
obtaining a collection of candidate alternative flight itineraries occurring within a specified time frame and that correspond to an origin and destination of the user itinerary,determining current flight status information for the candidate alternative flight itineraries,ranking the collection of candidate alternative flight itineraries according to one or more criteria, andselecting a specified number of the highest ranked candidate alternative flights to generate a group of alternative flight itineraries; and providing one or more of the group of alternative flight itineraries for display on a user device.