20,000 Searches Per Ticket Sold. Five Years of Litigation Proved $2,457.72 of Harm.

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Your search platform will answer somewhere between ten and twenty thousand queries today for every ticket it sells. Just under half the traffic doing the asking will never fly anywhere.

Here is what a single one of those queries costs. A customer pulling up a month of fares can fan out to roughly 450 AirShopping requests against your passenger service system. The scraper triggering the same request pays about a sixth of a cent.

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20,000 Searches Per Ticket Sold. Five Years of Litigation Proved $2,457.72 of Harm.