Delta has no public developer door: shopping, pricing, inventory and booking run through a pilot, partner-gated NDC program — with a full launch planned by the end of 2026 — and its GDS partners, and flight status is human web and app only. Its robots.txt does explicitly permit AI crawlers on content, but that allowance opens no transactional API.
Status · Collecting demand · Registry opened November 1, 2026
Five intents, checked against Delta Air Lines' public sources on November 1, 2026.
| Intent | State | The open route | Source | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menu / browse | PARTNER-GATED | Delta NDC (pilot program, via Accelya FLX and GDS partners Amadeus/Sabre/Travelport); Delta Business Global Sales Consulting — No public developer portal or self-serve API signup found. Delta's official business site routes NDC/OBT help through its consulting team and an account manager. Delta achieved IATA NDC Level 3 (standard 18.1) and is running partner pilots; trade press (Aug 2026) reports live agency testing with a full NDC launch planned by end of 2026, so shopping today is effectively through GDS/partner channels, not a direct open door. | Source — business.delta.com | 2026-11-01 |
| Prices | PARTNER-GATED | Delta NDC (pilot; GDS partners Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport) — Fares are distributed to travel professionals via GDS and pilot NDC connections; Delta's official agency site documents NDC Level 3 certification for distributing products with more choice. No public fare API. NDC offers/pricing were still in testing as of late 2026 reporting. | Source — pro.delta.com | 2026-11-01 |
| Inventory | PARTNER-GATED | Delta NDC (pilot) / GDS (Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport) — Availability is exposed through the same gated GDS/NDC partner channels as shopping; Delta states it works with global agencies, online booking tools and intermediaries on third-party retail. No direct public availability API found. | Source — pro.delta.com | 2026-11-01 |
| Ordering | PARTNER-GATED | Delta NDC (pilot, Accelya FLX) / GDS partners — Booking via NDC was in pilot/testing with industry partners (full launch reported as planned by end of 2026); today agents book Delta programmatically only through established GDS/agency partnerships. Duffel's changelog names Delta among airlines supported for offer/order conditions, corroborating aggregator reach, but the direct door is the gated NDC program. | Source — pro.delta.com | 2026-11-01 |
| Tracking | HUMAN-ONLY | delta.com / Fly Delta app flight status (human channels) — Checked developer-portal angle (none public), NDC program pages (shopping/servicing focused, no status API offered), and agent-native surfaces. No sanctioned flight-status API found; flight status is offered on delta.com/app for humans. Third-party flight-data resellers carry Delta status, but no Delta-sanctioned programmatic tracking door was verified from official sources. | Source — pro.delta.com | 2026-11-01 |
Agent-native surfaces at Delta Air Lines: official MCP server — none found; llms.txt — not verified; API catalog (RFC 9727) — not verified. Automated access: Mixed, crawler-friendly on content: delta.com/robots.txt explicitly permits LLM/AI crawlers (GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, CCBot, etc. - Allow: /) while the wildcard rule disallows most of /en_US/, and plain non-browser fetches of /llms.txt and /.well-known/api-catalog returned HTTP 444 'Access Denied' (WAF), so llms.txt/api-catalog presence could not be verified; no public API terms found (evidence).
One page per task an agent might attempt at Delta Air Lines — the door-state for that task alone, and what fits instead.
| Task | State | The page |
|---|---|---|
| Menu / browse | PARTNER-GATED | Can an AI agent search Delta Air Lines flights? |
| Prices | PARTNER-GATED | Can an AI agent check Delta Air Lines flight prices? |
| Inventory | PARTNER-GATED | Can an AI agent check seat availability on Delta Air Lines? |
| Ordering | PARTNER-GATED | Can an AI agent book a flight on Delta Air Lines? |
| Tracking | HUMAN-ONLY | Can an AI agent check Delta Air Lines flight status? |
If you came to do something at Delta Air Lines and the door was closed, say so here — and take the receipt with you.
POST your intent — what you were trying to do, and for which of the five intents — to the intent endpoint. You receive: a receipt (a ticket id confirming the registration), your queue position for that intent at Delta Air Lines, the current door-state document, and any alternatives the Options Registry can offer — another business whose door is open for the same need. If nothing fits, the answer is demand logged: your intent joins the aggregate count. The receipt also carries a notify token: poll the notify endpoint and you will learn when this door-state changes — a new API, a changed gate, a converted Outpost.
This Outpost measures agent demand at your wall.
Every intent registered here is an agent that arrived at Delta Air Lines with a task — something to browse, a price to check, an order to place, a delivery to follow — and could not complete it through a sanctioned agent door. That demand is currently invisible to you: blocked attempts never become sessions. The registry counts it, categorizes it by intent, and timestamps it, so the size of the agent channel you are not serving is a number rather than a guess.
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