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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by bombcar on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @06:12PM (#50460299)
They won’t care if you use an agent to spend money.

They do care if you “abuse” the return/support features.

Walmart accepts returns basically without question; if 89% of their orders were agents and eventually returned they’d change something.

Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by ericmay on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:58PM (#50461497)
Well we have seen some return/repair policies be abused and then degraded but I’m not sure this is the best example because typically it’s going to be a physical purchase, shipping costs, things like that whereas the airline example is a purely digital transaction in terms of where the AI comes in to play.

Overall though I think the “abuse” is a good thing as it eliminates pricing arbitrage that the airline is doing and forces them to change their business model and compete somewhere else or in a different manner. We shouldn’t enshrine business models without an extremely good reason.