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Old Nov 18, 2020 | 1:30 am
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LCY8737
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Originally Posted by thebigben
Good stuff - although only point which makes it less useful for me is that it only supports LON as an origin. I've been looking at automating my search for premium fare deals but the best I could do is attempt to scrape google flights - cumbersome!
The BA API only provides ex-LON fares, so sadly this is the only data I have.

There are a few data providers out there that share wider fare data, though unfortunately they are not free. And while £0.01 per request doesn't sound like much, once you start doing searches for every major airport to every major airport combinations, possibly considering POS dimensions, that get refreshed every couple of days it quickly gets very expensive. And that is before even talking about proper hosting to handle the data volume.
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