Techtalks: Traveltech

I want to query flights form A to B with 1 stop. Now I want to specify the airport where I would change flights. Which API is the best for that? Thanks in advance.

What is the typical commission fee that OTAs get from airlines?

Hi folks, Great site - there's so much quality info up here. I am hoping someone could explain how to begin partnering with OTAs as a new entrant to the traveltech space. I note a general unwillingness of large OTAs to offer affiliate accounts (or access to their APIs) to newcomers without an existing user base. I might understand this in the case of bloggers. However, when building an app that relies on access to availability and pricing data, how can one get started in this area? Is it generally better to become a travel agent instead of an affiliate? Thanks for sharing any insights.

Is there an API out there that would provide cruise prices for the major cruise lines? Or is web scraping my only alternative?

I'm just getting started building a prototype for a OTA startup and I want to incorporate real-time flight fare data. I've read the overview article on travel APIs and have gotten started using the Amadeus self-service API. However the Amadeus API seems limited in how the flight offers are bundled—it appears that flight offers are a bundle of departing a returning flights instead of allowing the user to select which flights they want for each segment.

I've briefly looked at the other GDSs to what their APIs offer but it appears that neither of them offer self-service. Does anyone have experience getting access to their APIs for prototyping purposes? Additionally, their APIs seem to be a bit dated in terms of the tech (SOAP vs REST, XML vs JSON).

I've also considered "downstream" flight fare APIs like Skyscanner. I applied for a Skyscanner account but have not received any response after a week. I'm curious whether they have revenue requirements that need to be met in order to get access. Are their other non-GDSs APIs worth considering?

Another thought was to look at ATPCO for flight fare data. I'm not exactly sure where ATPCO fits into this picture in terms of the data they have.

Any advice or direction is welcome. I'm just getting started in the flight API space. I have significant tech experience but the travel tech space is completely new to me. Also, it might be worth mentioning that I'm US-based and would be looking to start with domestic flight data to begin.

Thanks!

What is the best way to build or source a price comparison widget/plugin for WordPress that shows booking.com and Expedia price alongside a hotel direct price in real time?

If I wanted to start car hire aggregator business. Where do I start and what would I need? I'm more interested in knowing what would I need in terms of Backend System, booking system etc.. I know I would need access to API to get the car, location etc But would love to know where to start apart from access to API. Many thanks in advance for your help.

Hello. I was reading lot of your articles, they are super informative and helpful, so thanks you for that!! So, I am trying to understand how all of these commission based flight search engine works? you giving them some parameters, based on this parameters they return you wide range on flights. and when you trying to actually book a flight, they are sending you to some travel agents/ carrier companies with their affiliate link (am i wrong?). so, I registered to Amadeus API, as i understood its like the widest data source for that, so now i have the access to the most of the flights data. but the only option that given there is to book right trough the GDS itself- what makes you the agent by yourself (in case you allowed to book though GDS of course). But what is the source these search engines are using to take all of this info of prices of agencies and carriers for each flight? or am I wrong with all of my assumption? Thanks!

I'm working on a project that needs access to availability by booking class. I've looked at the free REST APIs from Amadeus and Sabre and neither offer what I need. A couple of years ago I would have used QPX Express. These days, what's my best bet for fare class availability accessible via REST (preferably)? atpco seems compelling.

Is it possible to get booking details from booking.com through API? I want to process those records further like sending emails to the cleaning company, etc. For that, I would need to get booking information for my properties.

I'm implementing amadeus-ws-client , and using Fare_MasterPricerTravelBoardSearch to search flights with fare .
And successfully getting response ,

In response I got multiple flights with multiple recommendations , but not able to establish relationship b/w flights and recommendations

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtLdCoXzKiS-gTsNgBeQF6XExYup

you can see response on this url.

Could you please help to associate each flights with there respective fare

Thanks