Airline info

I would guess they are linked to the same booking system that travel agents use. What that is, I don't know, you will have to ask them or a travel agent. I imagine only accredited travel agents and service providers would be able to gain access to the booking system.

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member2204 said:
Galileo or Amadeus.
Internet booking engine

Computer reservations system
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These guys pull data directly from the respective airlines since they're an accredited agent. They have access to an API that does that.

The best way, if you'd like to do the same and you're just Joe Soap and not a travel agent, is to try and sign up for an affiliate scheme that might make such information available to you, but then you wouldn't really have search functionality at all and the data changes every hour or so, so quite a bit of effort to sync up and even then, you only send them to the recipient site anyway
 
I know many e-commerce sites use XML web services to pull information from various suppliers like stock availability. I'm working on an application like this which pulls container information from container depots in Durban back to our head office. The App itself is not difficult to build but you'd need to get login details from those who supply information. Although it may even be open and freely available XML stream, just check with them.

Could start here. If you need more help just shout, also busy working on a project atm :)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s5xy331f(v=vs.71).aspx
 
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Beerisgood said:
I know many e-commerce sites use XML web services to pull information from various suppliers like stock availability. I'm working on an application like this which pulls container information from container depots in Durban back to our head office. The App itself is not difficult to build but you'd need to get login details from those who supply information. Although it may even be open and freely available XML stream, just check with them.
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It won't be an open or freely available API. Also, the OP would have better luck asking the right questions with the right terminology. So saying "XML stream" and "XML Web Services" won't help much if the company who supplies the information is using JSON to do so as their delivery method. API is the correct term, even the junior over there would know what they mean.

The freely available ones are usually just flight information and very inaccurate. This goes direct to ACSA AFAIK, hence why they need accreditation as a travel agent and most likely would need to pay a yearly fee to access it.
 
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