Use cases · Travel & airline

Bot protection bypass for travel and airline data

Travel data tools need fresh fares, seats, and points or miles availability from airline and booking sites. The hard part is keeping those searches reliable when protected sites start returning bot challenges or 403s.

Hyper gives those teams one API for the protection layer, so they can keep search pipelines running without maintaining a custom bypass for every airline or travel site.

Protected airline and travel searches

Airlines and travel sites commonly use Akamai Bot Manager and Imperva (Incapsula), with DataDome appearing on some newer travel properties. Each can block repeated fare, award, or availability searches once the request pattern starts to look automated.

Instead of running every search through a browser or building a custom solver per site, teams send the challenge context to Hyper and continue the request from their own pipeline.

Keeping search results fresh

Travel results age quickly: fares change, seats open and close, and award availability moves throughout the day. Raw-HTTP solves help teams keep polling on schedule without paying to keep a browser fleet running around the clock.

We license the API for accessing publicly-available web data and verify customers at signup; it is built for fare, award, and availability research, not for defeating authentication or booking flows.

Customer case study
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How Points Path keeps airline miles data live inside Google Flights

Points Path helps travelers compare cash fares against points and miles directly in Google Flights. Hyper Solutions became the antibot layer behind the airline searches that make that comparison possible at production scale.

98.6%
United.com success rate over the latest 30-day window
~10M
monthly airline searches powered by Hyper Solutions
11
airlines maintained for Points Path
98.5%
weighted monthly success rate across those airlines

Challenge

In September 2023, Points Path came to Hyper Solutions with a reliability problem on United.com. Their browser-extension workflow used the traveler’s own browser to fetch airline miles data and match it against Google Flights price data.

That approach worked early on, but as usage grew, Akamai started catching the repeated search pattern and returning 403s after a period of activity. The issue threatened the core product experience: adding live miles data to Google Flights without slowing down the user.

Solution

Hyper Solutions moved the fragile browser-extension fetch path to a server-side integration that generated valid Akamai sensor data and cookies over HTTP.

The first United.com flow now runs at a 98.6% success rate over the latest 30-day measurement window, giving Points Path room to keep the extension experience fast while the airline-search workload scaled beyond what user-browser fetches could reliably support.

Outcome

By June 22, 2026, Points Path uses Hyper Solutions as part of the infrastructure behind airline award and miles-data lookups.

The integration now supports almost 10 million monthly airline searches across 11 maintained airlines, without a separate reverse-engineering project for every protection change.

Timeline

Sep 2023

Points Path contacts Hyper Solutions about United.com 403s.

Sep 2023

Hyper Solutions stabilizes the Akamai-protected United.com flow.

Jun 2026

Points Path runs almost 10M monthly searches across 11 maintained airlines.

Airline search coverage

Points Path searches protected airline surfaces across this coverage set. These are target sites, not customer logos.

Aer LingusAlaska AirlinesAmerican AirlinesDelta Air LinesEtihad AirwaysJetBlueQantasSpirit AirlinesUnited AirlinesVirgin AtlanticVirgin Australia

Metrics are provided by Points Path and reflect a recent production measurement window.

FAQ

Common questions

Answers for teams building in travel & airline. For a target-specific answer, ask the engineers directly.

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Yes. The same request shape works across Akamai, Incapsula, and DataDome, so a travel search pipeline can move between airlines and booking sites without a custom bypass for each one.
Yes. Raw-HTTP solves and flat per-solve pricing are designed for repeated fare, seat, and award searches without keeping a browser fleet warm.