It would likely break all sorts of TOS agreements at various levels, and wouldn't last a month.
There are industries where profits are huge and disruption is badly needed. Airlines are not one of them, afaik; ever since low-cost became a thing, they've been under constant economic pressure and usually operate on razor-thin margins, at least in Europe. Mid-size companies have all but disappeared, even giants like British Airways and KLM have been permanently de-structured.
Flying is an expensive and risky business, piling up the pressure is likely to generate even more safety issues than we already have today. If you're all about price, just fly with RyanAir and be sure that nobody can ask you for less money than they do.
Oh the big consolidated IATA airlines are raking it in, don't worry about them
"On a per passenger basis, [IATA] airlines will make a net profit of $7.08 in 2015. That is up on the $6.02 earned in 2014 and more than double the $3.38 earnings per passenger achieved in 2013."
Decentralization to the rescue? Create a decentralized system by which such scripts can be circulated and updated without anyone owning them.
In general I live by (0) anything that can be scripted and automated should be automated and (1) humans and machines are no different and the boundary between human and machine will blur in the future, so we might as well stop differentiating the two now, assume the customer is infinitely smart, and define all policies and business models using only initial state and final state of the customer rather than the process the customer went through to reach that state.
For example, my library books can be renewed online (or else one pays a fine). This can be automated. Thus, I write a script to abstract this problem out of my life. The library need only care when the loan out and when they get back, everything else about the system including whether it's a collection of silicon components or a collection of sodium-potassium-pump components that causes the state transitions at book renewals is none of their business. If I invented something that used germanium to cause a renewal (and biologists can't figure out whether to define it as living or nonliving, intelligent or nonintelligent), the library shouldn't care.
Similarly, it's none of the airline's business whether it's sodium-potassium, silicon, or germanium that transfers entropy about tickets; the initial and final states are the same. if I can gain information about airline tickets by manually querying 1000 times from different parameters, that process should be scripted and automated.
I'm a machine just like my computer, just a much slower one.
There are industries where profits are huge and disruption is badly needed. Airlines are not one of them, afaik; ever since low-cost became a thing, they've been under constant economic pressure and usually operate on razor-thin margins, at least in Europe. Mid-size companies have all but disappeared, even giants like British Airways and KLM have been permanently de-structured.
Flying is an expensive and risky business, piling up the pressure is likely to generate even more safety issues than we already have today. If you're all about price, just fly with RyanAir and be sure that nobody can ask you for less money than they do.