Amadeus Flight Bargains
This workflow can automatically monitor flight prices for specified routes, querying daily at scheduled times and comparing them with the set target price. Once a discounted flight below the target price is detected, the system will immediately notify the user via email. By integrating flight search APIs and intelligent filtering features, it significantly saves users time in searching for discounted tickets and increases the likelihood of discovering promotional flights, making it suitable for various scenarios such as individuals, travel agencies, and corporate travel management.
Workflow Name
Amadeus Flight Bargains
Key Features and Highlights
This workflow automatically performs scheduled daily queries for flight prices on specified routes and compares them against preset price targets. Once a flight deal below the target price is detected, it immediately sends an email notification to the user via Gmail. It integrates the Amadeus Flight Search API to enable real-time flight data retrieval and intelligent filtering. Additionally, it leverages code nodes to optimize and parse airline information, ensuring the email content is professional and detailed.
Core Problem Addressed
When searching for discounted airfares, users face an overwhelming number of flights and complex pricing information, making it difficult to efficiently monitor and filter suitable options. This workflow automates the querying and filtering process, significantly saving users’ time and increasing the chances of finding bargain flights. It effectively resolves the time-consuming and labor-intensive nature of manual searches.
Use Cases
- Individuals or travel agencies regularly monitoring discounted flights on specific routes
- Price-sensitive travelers who want to receive low-price flight alerts instantly
- Corporate travel management teams automating budget-compliant flight recommendations
- Travel recommendation platforms integrating flight deal notification features
Main Workflow Steps
- Schedule Trigger: Triggers the workflow daily at a specified time (default at 8 AM).
- FromTo: Sets departure and destination airport codes (e.g., LHR to JFK).
- CarrierNameLookup: Calls the Amadeus airline reference data API to build a mapping table between airline codes and names.
- Get Dates: Calculates a list of future target dates (e.g., 7 and 14 days ahead) for flight queries.
- Loop Over Items: Iterates over the query dates to process requests in batches.
- Amadeus Flight Search: Invokes the Amadeus Flight Search API to retrieve flight pricing data.
- Wait: Inserts a delay to avoid sending requests too rapidly.
- Merge & Extract: Merges multi-day data and extracts flight details such as airline name, departure time, flight duration, and price.
- Under Price: Filters flights priced below the user-defined threshold (e.g., 600).
- Gmail: Sends an email notification containing flight information and pricing details.
Involved Systems and Services
- Amadeus API (OAuth2 authentication): Flight search and airline reference data
- Gmail (OAuth2 authentication): Email sending service
- n8n built-in nodes: Scheduling trigger, HTTP requests, code execution, batch processing, waiting, filtering, etc.
Target Users and Value Proposition
- Travel enthusiasts and independent travelers who want easy access to discounted flight information
- Travel agencies and corporate travel managers aiming to enhance flight price monitoring efficiency
- E-commerce platforms or travel recommendation services looking to enrich user experience and service capabilities
- Users seeking to reduce manual search costs through automation
This workflow achieves a fully automated closed loop from airline data acquisition, date management, flight searching to email notification, greatly enhancing the convenience and timeliness of discovering discounted airfares, thus delivering tangible travel value to users.