Hipmunk Says Goodbye
There&#x27;s a number of comments about how hipmunk declined or didn&#x27;t have good prices. It reminded me of a recent Matthew Stoller piece ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mattstoller.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-wave-of-terror-in-american-commerce" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mattstoller.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-wave-of-terror-in-ame...</a> ) :<p>&quot;Similarly, I spoke on a panel a few months ago in Congress on airlines, and Adam Goldstein, the former CEO of flight travel booking site Hipmunk, talked as well. I used to love Hipmunk, but it’s terrible now and I don’t use it. Goldstein explained why. He noted that after the wave of consolidation among airlines during the Obama years, airlines stopped allowing his site to have access to pricing data unless they hid certain routes to consumers. This move to avoid competition destroyed the business and harmed consumers. (It’s also obviously illegal, and the Department of Transportation has antitrust authority it doesn’t use to stop it.) Why did Goldstein speak publicly? Hipmunk sold itself off and he’s no longer there.&quot;