Key Points
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Partnership with Anthropic: Amadeus is integrating flight and destination content into Anthropic’s Claude tools through a developer toolkit (Claude Code) and a proposed plugin for travel professionals (Claude Cowork). Both offerings are in early development, with a waitlist currently available.
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Shift in Development Strategy: This initiative follows Amadeus’s closure of its self-service developer portal in July, moving toward request-based Enterprise APIs. However, the company has not disclosed details on access terms, pricing, or whether enterprise contracts will be necessary.
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Competitive Landscape: Amadeus’s actions are part of a larger strategy to enhance agentic AI commerce, increasing competition with Sabre and Travelport, who are focusing on more open APIs and agentic marketplaces.
Summary
Amadeus is collaborating with Anthropic to incorporate its flight and destination information directly into AI assistant platforms, aiming at developers and travel professionals. The Amadeus toolkit within Claude Code will facilitate coding by offering documentation and connections without switching platforms, evolving from the previously active developer portal. Meanwhile, the proposed Claude Cowork plugin will enable users to conduct research and carry out operations within Amadeus applications using natural language, acting as an additional interface for existing systems. Both tools are not yet widely available, but a waitlist has been opened. This shift is characterized as part of Amadeus’s initiative to prepare for AI-driven commerce, competing with companies like Sabre and Travelport that are attracting developers with their more open approaches.
