I counted a year of searches on my flight search demo, and only 36% of them had fixed dates.

I build FlightPowers, a flight and hotel price API. The demo at demo.flightpowers.com lets you write something like "cheap flight to Europe sometime in October, 3-4 nights" and get live fares back. Between April 2025 and March 2026 the engine ran 27,320 searches there. About 4,900 signed-in users ran 21,822 of them, and visitors who weren't signed in ran the rest (most searches started in Tel Aviv).

How I counted

The database keeps the structured search the model turned each prompt into (origins, destinations, the date window, nights, stops, sort), never the prompt text. I grouped everything in SQL and never exported a row.…