Airline and hotel pricing without point-of-sale distortion
Collect fares as they appear to travellers in each origin market.
120 min
max sticky session
69
points of sale
99.4%
quote success rate
Travel pricing is the most aggressively geo-segmented category on the web. The same seat on the same flight carries a different fare depending on the point of sale, the currency, the device and how many times that address has searched the route recently.
Airline and OTA systems also apply search throttling that is far tighter than typical e-commerce, because each query hits an expensive downstream GDS call.
Residential exits in each point-of-sale market return the fare a traveller in that market is quoted, in the right currency, with the right taxes and ancillaries applied.
Rotating exits prevent the repeat-search penalty that inflates fares for addresses that have looked at a route several times.
How proxies solve it
True point-of-sale pricing
Fare and currency follow the exit's country, which is what determines the quoted price.
Avoid repeat-search inflation
A fresh address per query removes the search-history signal some systems price against.
Survive tight rate limits
Distributing queries across a large pool keeps you under per-address thresholds on throttle-heavy targets.
Sticky sessions for booking flows
Multi-step fare quotes need a stable exit for the whole funnel.
Which proxy to use
Residential Proxies
Route requests through consenting home broadband connections. The hardest pool to detect, and the one to reach for when a target actively fingerprints its traffic.
from $3.10 / GB
Also consider
How we would build it
- 1
Define route and POS pairs
The unit of collection is route plus point of sale, not route alone.
- 2
One session per quote
Sticky sessions keep currency and cabin selection stable through the multi-step quote.
- 3
Respect the downstream cost
Every fare search costs the airline money. Keep concurrency modest and cache aggressively.
- 4
Normalise to a base currency
Store both the quoted currency and a converted value with the FX rate and timestamp.
Travel fare monitoring questions
Adjacent workloads
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