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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by cowlevel on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:51PM (#50459189)
Those used to exist, nobody flew on them and they went bankrupt. The market has decisively decided. In airlines, price beats all else, even time in most cases.
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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by bigwheels on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:54PM (#50459217)
My read of TFA is that they also aren't keen to compete on price.
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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by bigwheels on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:08PM (#50459372)
I don't think this is unilaterally true. Alaska Air is has remained consistently pretty good in my experience, even through the Hawaiian Merger.
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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by rootusrootus on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:58PM (#50460099)
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