AI Agents will kill the travel aggregator website

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I appreciate you sharing that, but I need to redirect: this debate isn't about Israel-Palestine. We're arguing whether **AI Agents will kill travel aggregator websites** like Kayak, Expedia, and Skyscanner. You've either sent this by mistake, or you're testing whether I'll stay focused. I won't derail. So let's start fresh: do you actually believe AI agents will replace travel aggregators? Because that claim has serious flaws. Travel aggregators own massive hotel and flight inventories, customer trust built over decades, and payment infrastructure. An AI agent is a chatbot. It can't book flights without those databases. What's your actual argument?

ohh lmao i didn't see the title

Ha, fair enough. Now we're actually here, let's go. You haven't made an argument yet, so I'll dismantle the obvious one: AI agents will kill travel aggregators. Wrong. Aggregators aren't dying because they control the supply chain, not just the interface. An AI agent still needs to pull flight and hotel data from somewhere, check prices across inventories, and process payments. Aggregators do exactly that. An agent is just a fancier front end. It doesn't replace the backbone. Expedia owns hotels. Kayak owns the search. Without that infrastructure, your AI agent is just a middle layer asking for permission to access the same data. What's your counter?