Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be...
by AbsurdCensor on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:28PM
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Not that I know of, the best work around is hitting up Google Flights, but even that doesn't make things easy.
Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be...
by walthamstow on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:43PM
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Quite possibly my favourite Google product, surprised it has lived this long
Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be...
by interloxia on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:31AM
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It's showing its age unfortunately. For my last set of flights often the price displayed was not available after clicking through on google or on the airline's booking page and flight combos on the airline's sites that I was looking for wouldn't come up in the search :/
Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be...
by saarons on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:29PM
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Duffel is the best one I know about. Not directly for consumers but good for platform businesses who need an API.
Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be...
by Muromec on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:47PM
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Platform business go through the GDS ( Sabre, Amadeus ) directly just fine. They have the best kind of api
Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be...
by andix on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:30PM
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I honestly can't believe there isn't a SF based startup that is already doing it.
The usual issue of flight booking APIs is, that those flights are expensive. It's what travel agencies or travel departments in companies use.
Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be...
by Muromec on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:50PM
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There isn't any money in building api for a platform somebody else owns. At best you do a travel management system for corporate stuff. That kind of a startup definitely exists, funded by YC about ten years ago
Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be...
by Nicholas_C on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:21PM
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You have to get the data from a GDS and it looks like Sabre offers one already [1]. That said I don't know if just anyone can sign up for it.
[1] https://developer.sabre.com/product-collection/mcp-server
But do these actually exist?