AI agents can search, compare and assist with bookings, but travel involves money, rules and irreversible actions. A practical view of agent use cases, tool design, guardrails and where human confirmation remains essential.
Agencies, airlines, banks and loyalty programmes all want their own booking site. How to architect a white-label travel platform with per-brand configuration, content, commercial rules and domains, without forking the product.
Caching makes flight search fast and affordable, but stale fares erode trust and conversion. Strategies for cache keys, TTLs, pre-warming and re-pricing that balance speed, cost and accuracy.
Search, pricing, booking, payment, ticketing and servicing: how the parts of a modern travel booking engine fit together, where they fail, and which design decisions are hardest to reverse.
