What fare aggregation teams collect
Fare aggregation means gathering the localized prices a traveler would actually be quoted, then normalizing them for comparison. Typical work includes:
- Compare the same route or hotel across country-specific sites and display currencies.
- Track how published fares move by search date, stay date, device, and departure market.
- Feed a fare-comparison or meta-search index with fresh, location-accurate price data.
- Benchmark your own published rates against what travelers see in other regions.
- Collect only publicly displayed fares, within each site's terms and applicable law.
Why fares change with location
Airfare and hotel pricing is one of the most location-sensitive data sets on the web. Carriers and online travel agencies run separate points of sale per country, quote in local currencies, and tailor availability to the market a request appears to come from. A request from a datacenter IP, or from one office location, captures a single slice of that picture and can miss regional fare gaps entirely.
Residential proxies route your requests through real consumer devices in the country, and where supported the city, you want to measure. That returns the same fares a local traveler would be quoted, so your aggregation reflects the real market instead of your own network's default region.
Matching Nefo features to the job
Fare aggregation mixes two access patterns, and Nefo supports both on every plan:
- Rotating sessions assign a fresh IP per request, ideal for sampling thousands of route-and-date combinations independently.
- Sticky sessions hold the same IP for up to ~24 hours, useful when a fare is revealed across a multi-step flow (search, results, fare detail) that should look like one traveler.
- Country targeting reaches 227 markets, so you can read point-of-sale pricing almost anywhere.
- City and state targeting in the US, UK, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Japan, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Brazil, and India pins down domestic fare differences.
- HTTPS and SOCKS5 are both available, so headless collectors and full browsers connect the same way.
Collect fares responsibly
Use Nefo for lawful, public fare research only. Respect each site's terms of service and robots directives, keep request rates reasonable, and gather only publicly displayed prices.
Do not attempt to complete or manipulate bookings, evade security controls, or scrape data you are not permitted to process. Fare aggregation for comparison and analytics is a common practice, but the responsibility to stay within site terms and applicable law rests with you.
How to start from 5 GB
Bandwidth is pay-as-you-go and non-expiring, so you can scope a small aggregation run before scaling to full route coverage. Buy any amount of GB starting at 5 GB ($4.50, or $0.90/GB), generate credentials with your chosen country (or city and state), pick rotating or sticky, and point your collector at the endpoint over HTTPS or SOCKS5.
You can pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Alipay, Binance Pay or crypto. Your dashboard tracks usage and gives you API access as your coverage grows.
Frequently asked questions
Travel sites often treat non-residential traffic differently, and a VPN gives one exit location at a time. Residential IPs in each target market return the fares a local traveler sees, across many locations in parallel. See proxy vs VPN.
Use rotating sessions to sample many independent route-and-date queries. Switch to a sticky session, up to 24 hours, when a fare is revealed across a multi-step flow that should look like one traveler.
Yes. City and state targeting is available in most countries, across 22,417 cities. Elsewhere you can target at country level.
It depends on how many pages and API responses you collect. Plans start at 5 GB for $4.50 and never expire, so measure a sample run first. Larger plans cost less per GB, down to $0.53/GB at 10 TB.
Collecting publicly displayed fares for comparison or analytics is common, but you must follow each site's terms and applicable law. Booking fraud and security circumvention are prohibited by the acceptable use policy.