Seems odd to ban them booking. Just make all flights booked by AI non redundant or changable and the market will sort itself out.

I get preventing them from checking in and making acknowledgements or declarations on behalf of a human.

I'm no fan of ai, but this seems odd. The only reason I can think is that they are worried ai will be able to analyse and disrupt their pricing mechanisms. So, they are the first, hoping others will follow.

So they can use AI to collect and analyze all the data about me to be able to squeeze out even more money out of me but when I use it then suddenly they have to save me from my own AI because I don't know where my own AI will send my data?

I smell bullshit.

Plus, these automated AI actions have the potential to violate FAA and DOT regulations - as an example, flight check-in requires human acknowledgment that bags do not contain banned substances like explosives.

Maybe, just maybe, the idea of checking in before you're physically at the place you're checking into is a half-baked, short-sighted idea which defeats the entire purpose of "checking in" somewhere and should have never been implemented in the first place?