AI Agent for Cross-Platform Flight Price Comparison on MakeMyTrip
An in-flow AI agent that compares the final payable flight fare across ten booking platforms
✳The problem they went after
Flight prices fragment across travel sites in ways that make the real cheapest option unknowable. Base fares differ, so do convenience fees, bank partnership discounts and coupon codes, and the only way to find the true number is to open several sites and compare final payable amounts by hand. Travellers lose time and end up deciding out of fatigue rather than information.
✳What they actually did
Sharyansh puts an AI agent inside the booking flow. It pulls the final payable amount, base fare plus airline taxes, convenience fees and payment gateway charges, from the top ten platforms including MakeMyTrip, Goibibo, Expedia, IndiGo and Air India, estimates the coupon and credit card discounts that apply to the user's chosen payment method, ranks everything in one view, and hands the user off to whichever platform they pick. Fare comparison usage is the headline metric, with booking redirect rate behind it.
✳What you can take from it
Worth stealing
- Compares final payable amount, not headline base fare
- Discount estimates keyed to the user's payment method
- Non-sponsored result labels as an explicit trust guardrail
- API sourcing and freshness indicators answer the scraping risk
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Weighing a feature that helps users leave your product to save money
The transferable bitProposing a feature that sends people to a competitor and still defending it, by measuring whether MakeMyTrip becomes where travel price research starts, is a bold call handled well. The risk section is honest as well: scraping gets blocked and prices drift between comparison and checkout, so the answer is API sourcing and visible freshness indicators.
✳The submission itself
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