In a world where consumer spend is going to be shrinking amidst an upcoming downturn and consumer CAC going through the rough "vertical enterprise software" is going to be the next megatrend.<p>Sabre does 3.87B in revenue and Duffel is just re-inventing Sabre with a better suite of APIs. What other legacy enterprise, vertical software solutions exist that people could "Duffel?"
Is this aimed at the existing travel agent industry or at <i>an entirely new class of travel professional</i>? If it's the latter, I'm pretty excited about this. I have several friends who I've leaned on for helping with travel plans (who essentially acted as my API for international travel). I could see plenty of businesses created out of this - imagine turning a travel blogger into a travel planner with minimal additional effort on the part of the blogger. Airline points writers would also seem to be an ideal user of a suite like this.
Amadeus offers an easy-to-use and affordable flight booking API too: <a href="https://developers.amadeus.com/self-service/category/air/api-doc/flight-create-orders" rel="nofollow">https://developers.amadeus.com/self-service/category/air/api...</a><p>What's new here that Amadeus or Sabre do not offer?
While we are innovating in this space, perhaps it's time to address IATA's PNR (passenger Name record) Standard that is used by Sabre and Amadeus. Plenty of privacy issues in that old system.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record#Privacy_concerns" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record#Privac...</a>
Pretty exciting! Some time ago I was checking the available APIs for searching flight information. I was quite surprised to find out there wasn’t anything suitable for starting small.<p>API with a reasonable pay-as-you-go plan would enable innovation on this space.<p>Despite all the effort from different companies the searching/booking experience still does not feel ”enjoyable”.
Congrats.<p>I went to their site. Too bad there is no blog or any content there beside the homepage. Hope they will create it soon.<p>A large portion of that $30M will go to PPC campaigns probably, instead of building a solid SEO structure that gives real value to their target audience and creates a solid brand.
They’re integrating with Airlines’ booking systems directly. This will work until you become so big that the airlines feel threatened by you, at which point they’ll cut the API access and implement whatever idea you were working on.<p>That’s how my bank operates! You can use our API but we reserve the right to shut off access at any time for any reason. Oh look, your customers love this feature you just added? Gee, we need to close your API access for <i>reasons</i>. Oh look we just added this great new feature to our app, don’t you love it?