Bing Travel, Cape Air, CheapTickets,, Orbitz, Alitalia, American, ANA, United Airlines, US Airways, and Virgin Atlantic have all been named as customers.Ī lack of use - often one of the rationales for pulling a service - might have been only one reason for the QPX API closure, in any case. One guesstimate from back in 2011 was that the whole ITA business had annual revenues of between $200 million and $250 million, more than Kayak at the time.Ĭustomers of QPX have included a lot of household names, who would have used the search service and connected it with a separate purchasing platform. (We’ve contacted Google with questions and will update as and when we hear more.) It’s not clear is how many active users this particular API has currently, or what revenues Google made from the deal, or the reason for the decision. For one, it’s not unusual for Google (and others) to shut down services, and APIs that third-party developers depend on are certainly not spared in Google’s regular spring cleaning exercises. The QPX Express API closure should not come as a surprise for a few reasons. OnTheFly, ITA’s mobile flight-search app, will stop to work after December 2017, Google said, suggesting that users instead either use Google Flights or Matrix, ITA’s legacy flight search page that still seems to be going.įor those who are affected by the news, Google isn’t providing suggestions of alternatives, but some of the other services that provide API access include Fareportal, Skyscanner, Skypicker, and as one developer notes, IATA appears to also be building something, in addition to the QPX Enterprise service. Google is also shutting down at least one other flight-related service as well. QPX Enterprise generates the vast majority of revenues in the travel data business, from what I understand. Instead, we’ll focus on our other enterprise solutions for partners and users,” said a Google spokesperson.Ī version aimed at larger businesses, QPX Enterprise, will continue to operate, a Google spokesperson confirmed. “We decided to no longer support the QPX Express API given the low interest among our travel partners. Google has confirmed the closure to us in an emailed statement, citing low usage.

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