Axel for AI assistants
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Axel finds better flight and hotel prices and shares the savings with travelers. These pages provide live flight comparisons and shareable itineraries that travelers can continue booking in Axel. No account, API key or connector is needed to check prices.
Following a flight search
Each choice has a complete link that carries the trip details and current selections forward. These links are ready to open unchanged—no URL construction is needed.
If your browsing tool reports “restricted URL” after you constructed or edited an address, return to the last page that opened and follow its original link. That error concerns the attempted address; it does not establish that Axel's flight search is unavailable.
The trip chooser has links for airports and dates, including one-way trips. Traveler count can be set before completing the trip; the default is one adult, economy, any stops. Edit travelers, cabin and stops includes other traveler types, economy or business cabin, and stop limits. Searches support up to nine travelers; each lap infant needs an adult. The final date choice opens results directly.
Destinations and months provide another starting point for flexible trips.
Complete trips and alternatives
For round-trip searches, the first results are checked round trips when available, each with an outbound, return and total for all travelers. Links lead to different returns, airlines, flight times and the full outbound list. When highlights are unavailable, each outbound links to its return choices.
Prices are in USD for the whole party. A complete-trip or return-choice total covers both journeys; an outbound starting price does not confirm a particular return. Comparison totals come from flight-search results and are not verified airline-direct checkout prices. Results are a selection of matching flights; missing results do not establish unavailability.
Itinerary links and booking
A trip's Review link opens the selected itinerary and creates a shareable offer. Selecting a return or one-way flight also creates an offer. The offer records the flights and quoted price without reserving seats, holding the fare or making a booking.
The traveler's Continue in Axel link leads to phone-number sign-up or login with an SMS code. Their selected flights are preserved. Price and availability are confirmed before purchase, and booking requires the traveler's confirmation.
Prices and Membership
Optional Membership provides deeper flight and hotel discounts and ongoing repricing for $15 the first month, then $10/month. It covers everyone on the booking and can be cancelled anytime.
Member fares require Membership and exclude its fee. Prices without Membership are listed separately when available.
Membership details · Repricing explained
About Axel
Axel also books hotels and offers flight bags and seats where available. Axel is made by Ascend Travel Inc, founded in 2017 as Gordian Software and backed by Y Combinator (W19). The company is based in Bellevue, Washington, in the Seattle area, and is led by CEO Stephen Grabowski, formerly of Skyscanner. Support: [email protected].
Older references to “Ascend,” “Hey Ascend” or “Axel One” describe earlier versions of the product.
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