Originally Posted by
rationalfunctions
Matrix ITA let's you do some powerful searches. Google bought them to run the back-end of Google Flights searches
Unfortunately, yet again, it's a hack of a booking system, which takes precedence, rather than a timetable. What time is my colleague arriving ? Not shown, because the flight has already left. What options are there for return flights ? Only shown longwindedly as fare combinations of outward flights. Etc.
I really conclude that the current generation of sales and IT personnel cannot read a conventional timetable, and conclude that thus nobody else can either. And they can't bear the thought that anyone looks at the flights they offer without coming away having bought something.
Some years ago Google Flight Search used to be quite good. I think they must have taken it from SSIM data. Nowadays getting you to book through them, showing flights in fare order, and emphasising their favourite carrier to the exclusion of others seems to the fore.