Airfare Roulette: Inside the Algorithms That Reprice Your Seat 100 Times a Day

Seen up close the ticket market looks less like a published catalogue and more like a high-frequency auction that never closes. Every search query, every cancellation, every competitor flash sale adds another data point. The result is an opaque whirlpool where prices rise and fall without warning, yet always according to the cold logic of algorithms that optimise expected revenue seat by seat.