Airlines got too good at pricing games

Okay so the thing that bothers me isn’t that AI can adjust prices fast. It’s that it’s closing the gaps that used to exist. Like, airlines couldn’t move quick enough before so you’d get 48 hours where a flight was actually cheap. Now? That window is gone.

It’s the same move I saw with build tools. CRA was slow enough that you could kind of optimize around it. Vite so fast that optimization became impossible. You have to be perfect from the start. Except with flights this sucks for regular people.

source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/higher-airfares-loom-on-busy-routes-as-ai-squeezes-out-bargains

The Vite comparison is funny because that actually helped devs, the tool got out of your way. With flights it’s the opposite, the speed is working against you instead of for you. Same mechanism, totally different side of the table you’re standing on.