Getting access to the airlines booking info
Jan 3, 2008, 4:12 am
#1
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Getting access to the airlines booking info
Hi all,
I've been busy booking travel stuff lately and rapidly reached the conclusion that there wasn't a flight search engine out there that lets me search the way I want to search.
I'm also a web programmer, so I'm wandering whether I can cook up something myself. The first hurdle for this would be getting the ability to query flight availability and cost. Has anyone got ideas on where I would start with this?
Ideally there would be a web service somewhere that I could feed in flight details and get a response back. I suspect there is no single one and I'll need to hit a number of different services, possibly one per carrier.
Cheers,
Peter
I've been busy booking travel stuff lately and rapidly reached the conclusion that there wasn't a flight search engine out there that lets me search the way I want to search.
I'm also a web programmer, so I'm wandering whether I can cook up something myself. The first hurdle for this would be getting the ability to query flight availability and cost. Has anyone got ideas on where I would start with this?
Ideally there would be a web service somewhere that I could feed in flight details and get a response back. I suspect there is no single one and I'll need to hit a number of different services, possibly one per carrier.
Cheers,
Peter
Jan 3, 2008, 6:17 am
#2
Join Date: Apr 2006
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My first impression from reading your post is that you have probably not looked at enough booking engines. Have you looked here? Please elaborate - which sites have you looked at, and specifically what is it that they cannot do?
Last edited by deubster; Jan 3, 2008 at 6:40 am
Jan 3, 2008, 7:03 am
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That's quite an impressive list of links. Thanks for pointing me at it.
My ideal flight search engine would let me choose what class I wish to fly and hat frequent flyer program I'm a member of. I would then want to choose a departure airport and have it give me a list of places I could fly on member airlines and how much it will cost.
The closest I've found is skyscanner.net, which does the type of search I want, but doesn't restrict it by ff program and always shows budget seats.
My ideal flight search engine would let me choose what class I wish to fly and hat frequent flyer program I'm a member of. I would then want to choose a departure airport and have it give me a list of places I could fly on member airlines and how much it will cost.
The closest I've found is skyscanner.net, which does the type of search I want, but doesn't restrict it by ff program and always shows budget seats.
Jan 3, 2008, 10:09 am
#6
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: DME
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Expertflyer "sort of" has functionality that you want.
You can pick class or even fare basis codes and you can specify airline codes / alliance - that should take care of FF program.
You can pick class or even fare basis codes and you can specify airline codes / alliance - that should take care of FF program.