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Wow that's ridiculously fast. I'm used to seeing long-running spinners and "loading" pages.

Anyway, for US travel, no Southwest = no deal for me (not that Google or the other searches can do anything about that).

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Realize that Google uses a lot of caching to make this fast; the prices are actually pretty stale. The more up to date the information the slower accessing it is. Generating flight itineraries and prices with near realtime availability (especially for today and tomorrow) is incredibly difficult to do. The less often you do it the faster the result can be. Since Google isn't a seller of seats they also avoid all the crap the DOT requires on disclosure and accuracy. I only wish it was possible to do real-time this fast.

> no Southwest = no deal for me

Agreed, although I always thought the sticking point for SWA was paying commissions and not data access. For a sample search from BWI-SFO their price was only about $20 more expensive than the lowest fare ($520).

On the two occasions I have used it, Google flights was able to find me cheaper tickets than what Southwest offers. It is now my first stop, and then I double check Southwest to see if they can beat what Google has shown.

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