Can you book flights and hotels using AI?
The short answer is… kind of, but none of the AI chatbots are reliable, so you’ll still need to do your own research at this stage.
Having recently spent hours researching flights and accommodation for a three-week trip to Japan, I decided to compare my results to Bard and ChatGPT’s suggestions.
It turns out that Bard is actually surprisingly good at finding flights. A simple request for flights from Melbourne and Tokyo on a particular day returned options with major carriers like Qantas and Japan Airlines, which is probably what many people would be after.
Bard was then able to further refine the results to “cheapest direct flight, with seat selection, a minimum 15 kilograms of luggage and a meal,” finding an Air Asia flight from Melbourne to Osaka that was cheaper than the one I’d booked to Tokyo.
Bard found a very good value flight after the search query was refined.The AI was also pretty good at determining the seat width, pitch and recline angle for the Air Asia flight to work out if actually flying with the airline was going to be a nightmare.
