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Why isn’t there an LLM for booking flights yet? Save payment, frequent flier, TSA PreCheck.

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Chris Beavers pfp

you mean a travel… agent?

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Brian Kim pfp

ik someone working on something like this

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main drivers of change: modern RESTful JSON APIs instead of SOAP/XML direct connections to airlines bypassing GDS mobile solutions and personalization regulatory pressure and compliance requirements the transition has already begun but will be gradual due to the criticality of systems for operations. the systems were built in the 1960s–70s and operate via text commands like "AN20JUNNYC LAX" to search for flights. why they're still in use: - experienced agents work faster in a terminal than in a GUI - the systems are extremely reliable and stable - deeply embedded in the aviation industry - replacing them costs a fortune passengers see modern websites, but behind them often run the same 50-year-old terminal systems.

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if this was 10 years ago but also today you could connect the api google flights initially was + an Operator instance and knock this out in one hour. sadly google bought and killed the only good flights api, so this is now much harder https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/01/google-will-pull-its-qpx-express-api-in-april-2018-cutting-off-its-flight-data-feed/

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interestingly, when openai adds mcp support to web chatgpt (it's coming) this is going to happen SO fast we can't even imagine mcp's are only usable either in claude (desktop-only, complete bs) or openai api (no ui yet) we've built pigeon.trade on top of many mcp servers and now anyone in us/ca can text 888 655 8732

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There is! We built it with the same API we built Worldstore @crossmint If someone wants to build a miniapp for this ping @filippos or myself! https://x.com/crossmint/status/1931021892632375570?s=46

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would you pay for it? flights have 0 margin and a lot of headaches at most vibe coded llm wrapper that is an affiliate link aggregator doable

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@casslineth can nanobrowser @nanograph do this? :)

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Because the airline sites are written in ASP.net which has so much latency that it destroys the browser agents

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Why isn’t there an LLM for filling out forms?

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i think there isnt a great solution approach because: > could use APIs like Duffel as a tool call but then that app/AI becomes the "travel agent" and the airline takes no direct responsibility for changes/etc > could use browser automation (to simulate "you" booking it) but it's very flaky/unreliable

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theres a service that keeps checking the flight for changes and refunds you the extra...

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I've tried this with Operator with little success. You can get it to save a login but its pretty much faster just to book it.

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Carl Zielinski (carlz.eth)

honestly surprised this isn't built into Google Flights yet

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Also this just dropped and open-sourced https://github.com/openai/openai-cs-agents-demo

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Large language model? 😬

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MsSlammy 🖐🏽

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