Originally Posted by
billdokes
This common practice is usually called “web scraping” or similar names and is used by all travel tools in some form. Courts have routinely held that retrieving public information from public websites is legal and does not require us to follow any restrictions the airlines may try to arbitrarily impose, as we are just visiting their public websites.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say the jurisprudence on this has a lot more nuances than this seems to be describing...