Comet to test flight calendars and coupons

Mrityunjay Nigam compared Comet and OpenAI's Atlas on a flight-booking task from Bangalore. The brief asked for the cheapest direct one-way option to one of four specified destinations during the week of November 30, with coupon checks and booking-site comparisons before checkout.

Comet used only MakeMyTrip despite the request to search across major platforms. Within that site it applied destination filters, read the price calendar and chose a date-and-destination combination. It then used dummy passenger details to reach checkout and tested multiple coupon codes. At the final step it stated that it could not complete payment or booking submission.

Atlas followed prior browsing context to Skyscanner. It examined fares but triggered unwanted fare or price-alert dialogs, struggled with the passenger email field and failed to continue reliably to the third-party booking site. It eventually asked the user to proceed manually.

The outcome was therefore a checkout experiment, not a purchased ticket or a demonstrated lowest fare across the market. No exact final fare is supplied. The useful procedure is to inspect whether the agent actually compared the requested sites, distinguish test passenger data from travel-ready details, and treat a checkout limitation as unfinished work rather than accepting a fake confirmation.

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Source: medium.com · Mrityunjay Nigam