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If airlines can't be seen by the machines, someone has to translate for them. Amadeus would very much like to be that someone.
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Decius Valmorbida, president of travel at Amadeus, will be a speaker the Skift Global Forum in New York City, September 22-24, 2026.
An AI agent does not get tired. Point one at an airline website and it will keep going until it has pulled every fare combination it can find. In an example Skift reported earlier this month, a coding agent turned loose on Etihad Airways' site returned more than 880,000 fare options for a single trip.
The gap between travel systems built for human behavior and the machines now using them was a recurring theme in Skift’s conversation with Decius Valmorbida, president of travel at Amadeus.
"This is our specialty, because one thing we have done from the beginning is operate at scale," he said. The company's systems currently handle around 150,000 transactions a second.
Valmorbida's solution to the emerging threat of ‘infinite search’ is to stop answering each query live. Amadeus can precompute a large set of
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