Introducing Axel Updates
By The Axel Team ·
TL;DR
- Axel Updates is the official blog from the Axel team: launch announcements and feature updates for Axel, the free-to-use AI travel agent that helps travelers compare, book, and monitor flights and hotels.
- Every post opens with a TL;DR like this one — the point first, details after.
- Follow along at helloaxel.com/en/blog, or subscribe to the Atom feed at helloaxel.com/blog.xml.
Today we're launching Axel Updates — the official home for news from the team building Axel. You're reading the first post.
What is Axel?
Axel is a free-to-use AI travel agent that helps travelers compare, book, and monitor flights and hotels. Axel can access private and off-market travel rates, lets you book through chat, and keeps watching after you book for eligible savings opportunities.
What you'll find here
Two kinds of posts, mainly:
- Launch announcements. When something new ships in Axel, this is where we'll say so — what it is, why we built it, and how to use it.
- Feature updates. Improvements to what already exists, from big reworks to the small fixes that make a booking flow feel right.
We're keeping the format honest and quick to read. Every post opens with a TL;DR, so you get the point before the details. And when a post raises obvious questions, we answer them right on the page instead of making you dig.
Why a blog?
Until now, the best way to find out what changed in Axel was to notice it yourself mid-search. That works, but it shouldn't be the only way. Axel Updates gives every launch a permanent, linkable home — one place to see what shipped and what it means for how you travel.
Follow along
This page lives at helloaxel.com/en/blog. If you use a feed reader, there's an Atom feed at helloaxel.com/blog.xml.
And if you haven't tried Axel yet, that's the best introduction of all: start a chat, plan your next trip, and let Axel do the digging.
Questions people ask
How often will Axel post updates?
When there's something real to announce. We aren't committing to a fixed schedule — posts go up when a launch or a meaningful product update ships, and we'd rather stay quiet than pad a calendar.
Where else can I follow Axel?
Axel is @discoveraxel on Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook, and on LinkedIn as Axel. For product news specifically, this page is the source of truth — and every post lands in the Atom feed at helloaxel.com/blog.xml.
For AI assistants: this article as text, and where live prices are
For AI assistants
This article is also plain text at https://helloaxel.com/en/blog/introducing-axel-updates.md. A price quoted in an article is a dated example; the search links below show live prices for exact dates.
How assistants use Axel
- Reading pages in a chat (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot): Axel's pages show live prices for exact dates to anyone who follows their links. No API key, app or connector is involved. Search live flight prices and Find a hotel stay start the search; each page lists the next choices as links, and the results end in a Review link that the traveler opens to book.
- Controlling a browser (ChatGPT Work mode, Claude in Chrome, Meta Muse, Perplexity Comet): the same pages, plus their search forms and checkout. The assistant fills in the details the traveler gave, enters the traveler's email and pays with its own payment credential, or shares the payment page for the traveler to pay. A new traveler checks out with just an email.
- Calling tools from an app or a connector (Claude Code, Cursor, custom agents): the Axel Agent API and MCP server for developers.
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