Does Google Flights allow AI agents?

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Google ToS bans automated access against robots.txt, and robots.txt disallows /travel/flights/search and /travel/flights/booking.

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What the site's own pages say

Each line links to the page it comes from. Lines marked as crawler rules come from the site's robots.txt and tell automated crawlers what not to fetch; they are not legal terms.

• Google's Terms of Service (which Google lists as governing Google Flights) say: using automated means to access content from any of our services in violation of the machine-readable instructions on our web pages (for example, robots.txt files that disallow crawling, training, or other activities)

  Official source Source as of 2026-07-30

• Google's Terms of Service (which Google lists as governing Google Flights) say: Bypassing Google's systems or protective measures is prohibited abuse of services.

  Official source Source as of 2026-07-30

• Google's Terms of Service (which Google lists as governing Google Flights) say: using AI-generated content from our services to develop machine learning models or related AI technology

  Official source Source as of 2026-07-30

• Google's Terms of Service (which Google lists as governing Google Flights) say: Reverse engineering services or underlying technology, including ML models, to extract trade secrets is prohibited.

  Official source Source as of 2026-07-30

• Google's Terms of Service (which Google lists as governing Google Flights) say: Accessing or using services in fraudulent or deceptive ways is prohibited.

  Official source Source as of 2026-07-30

• Google's Terms of Service (which Google lists as governing Google Flights) say: The Google Terms of Service in force on the retrieval date are effective July 30, 2026.

  Official source Source as of 2026-07-30

• Disallow: /travel/flights/booking
  Disallow: /travel/flights/s/
  Disallow: /travel/flights/search

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

Sources

• Google Terms of Service 2026-07-30