Hopper Notches First Fintech Deal With Online Travel Agency
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This deal with MakeMyTrip is likely to be the first among several tech agreements that Hopper will make with rival online travel agencies. This potentially could become a big side of Hopper's overall operation.
Hopper, the flight and hotel app, reached its first "fintech" deal with an online travel agency, India's MakeMyTrip.
MakeMyTrip already has a feature for customers that enables them to lock an airfare at a certain price for a fee, and then book it later. The new Hopper partnership, which has not yet been implemented, will enable MakeMyTrip to use artificial intelligence from Hopper to dynamically price how much flyers would have to pay to lock a fare for up to seven days.
If the partnership works as pitched,
