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The Mike Litton Experience

How AI Is Disrupting Airfare Pricing: Chris Amenechi on SeatCash, Travel Tech & Airline Innovation

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

Careers, Kids & Family, Business, Parenting

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Mike Litton Experience, we sit down with global travel industry innovator Chris Amenechi, Founder & CEO of SeatCash, to explore how AI and predictive analytics are transforming the way we fly. Chris shares the fascinating backstory of how companies like Priceline and Expedia rose from the ashes of 9/11 by […]

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0:00.0

But even when things got opened up again, people were afraid to fly.

0:05.5

Yeah.

0:06.9

Right.

0:07.7

And so planes are flying empty, which was even worse because you lose money every day, right?

0:11.7

Yeah.

0:12.2

And so the decision is to how to get people on the airplanes.

0:17.3

You know, the airlines didn't have a ton of money.

0:19.8

They couldn't advertise as much.

0:22.0

And you're basically trying to sharp cash.

0:24.4

Yeah.

0:25.3

And guess what came out of that?

0:28.4

Expedia price line.

0:29.9

Same thing with pilots.

0:31.4

Got to see firsthand, even at that school, what was going on,

0:36.4

and see how things were negotiated.

0:38.7

You got to see things around terrorism.

0:42.0

Those impacts were there, the people who were in the classrooms and they were taking out the next day.

0:47.0

Never saw them again, right?

0:49.4

So we saw a lot of that.

0:51.2

But you also got to understand that, look, it's a complicated industry.

0:55.5

Some of it is just the technology we had back then. And some of it is just the way it's distributed

1:02.1

and who sells airline tickets and no different than hotels, no different than car rentals

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