I used QPX to build a popular feature on our ski travel site:<p>https://www.zrankings.com/powderfares<p>The ski season is drawing to a close, obviously, so we'll basically make it through this season with this intact. But I have yet to find another API that gives the same kind of queryable access to the flight database (ITA, owned by Google).<p>Is this simply a case where startups/small companies are now out of luck, full stop? Or does anybody know of a decent alternative that has cropped up?<p>Needless to say, this decision by Google, along with a few other data points, has soured my outlook on their status as the arbiter of so much of the world's useful data.
I've been using Kiwi's API [0] after I was blacklisted from QPX for a buggy rate-limit backoff implementation (before the news of the shutdown). Never got a response from QPX support, and I was a paying QPX customer. Kiwi is a lot nicer to work with anyways, and they offer deep URLs so that you can link to a booking page.<p>[0]: <a href="https://docs.kiwi.com/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.kiwi.com/</a>