Comments on: Amadeus warns off scraping iPhone app maker, reveals launch of own service

By: John

John — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:40:01 +0000

So, It is not clear yet , is it possible or not to scrape travel data

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By: Amadeus launches mobile service, joins Sabre at the trip planning party | Tnooz

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:43:14 +0000

[...] Amadeus told the creator of MyFlightsApp to close the service in November 2009 after it emerged the app was scraping Amadeus data when providing travel information to users. [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:20:43 +0000

This is an interesting story. I purchased MyFlights and I’m very happy with it. It’s a real shame that Chris has been forced to stop selling/supporting it just because Amadeus is planning (do they have an eta) to develop their own. I’m sure that if the Amadeus app is very similar Chris would have a case for copyright infringement, wouldn’t it be better if they just licences his app as the official version?

What ever happened to free markets and fair competition?

By: Chris Schofield

Chris Schofield — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:24:40 +0000

An interesting read… especially Amadeus’ take on it. Thank you for picking up on this.

Before development I contacted Amadeus, and they suggested I use the screen scraping method as they only provide APIs to Travel Agents.

Following developing the App, it is launched and very successful, and the new take from Amadeus is “we’d like you to stop. Co-incidentally we’d like to launch our own version”.

Additionally, their comment on “data that was not displayed correctly especially for car/hotel” is interesting because the application is purely for flights, so no information for hotels or cars is displayed at all.

I will be interested to see what Amadeus came up with, especially as they commented “it’s amazing when you look at the two applications side by side – they’re so similar”. A lucky co-incidence for them…

It’s a shame – I’ve had many comments from users since saying how much they value the App.

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