In theory, yes. But in a real world evaluation would it pick better flights? I'd like to see evidence that it's able to find a better flight that maximizes this. Also the tricky part is how do you communicate how much I personally weight a shorter flight vs points on my preferred carrier vs having to leave for the airport at 5am vs 8am? I'm sure my answers would differ from wiradikusuma's answers.
When I'm picking out a flight I'm looking at, among other things:
* Is the itinerary aggravatingly early or late
* Is the layover aggravatingly short or long
* Is the layover in an airport that sucks
* Is the flight on a carrier that sucks
* What does it cost
If you asked me to encode ahead of time the relative value of each of these dimensions I'd never be able to do it. Heck, the relative value to me isn't even constant over time. But show me five options and I can easily select between them. A clear case where search is more convenient than some agent doing it for me.
I agree. At first I would be open to an LLM suggested option to appear in the search UI. I would have to pick it the majority of the time for quite awhile for me to trust it enough to blindly book through it.
It's the same problem with Alexa. I don't trust it to blindly reorder me basic stuff when I have to shift through so many bad product listing on the Amazon marketplace.
