Google Flights/QPX Query Without Destination [closed]

I followed this post to send flight requests using Google Flights/QPX API and it all works provided # of passengers, an origin airport, a destination airport and departure date.

I want to retrieve all possible destinations given # of passengers, an origin airport and departure date, thus leaving out destination airport (see desired output here). However, that is not possible because the API requires a destination. What is the best way to go about this:

send multiple requests for different destinations at the same time? That would be slow and expensive ($0.03/request).
Other suggestions

Following is my code:

HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.2.min.js"></script>
        <script src="test.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
            <input type="submit" id="submit" value="Submit">
    </body>
</html>

JS:

var sendRequest = function(){
    var FlightRequest = {
      "request": {
        "passengers": {
          "adultCount": 1
        },
        "slice": [
          {
            "origin": "JFK",
            "date": "2015-05-01"
          }
        ],
        "maxPrice": "USD500",
        "refundable": false
      }
    };

    $.ajax({
     type: "POST",
     url: "https://www.googleapis.com/qpxExpress/v1/trips/search?key=YOUR_API_KEY", 
     contentType: 'application/json', 
     dataType: 'json',
     data: JSON.stringify(FlightRequest),
     success: function (data) {
      console.log(JSON.stringify(data));
    },
      error: function(){
       alert("Access to Google QPX Failed.");
     }
    });
}

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#submit").click(function(){sendRequest();});
});

What am I missing? Any suggestions? Is there a different API that can do this?

Solution 1:

Most likley you cant avoid having multiple queries within the QPX API. There might be a solution if you want to use the "business"-version which is offered by ITA Software by Google directly. It's called "Airfare Shopping System". This is also used by airlines and bigger travel agencies but is most-likely in a small-budget range.

However an idea might be SkyScanner for Business. Iam not sure about their conditions. However they offer "special" queries based on their cached flights. So maybe a drawback is that its not real-time data and only refreshed once a day. You might have to check the limitations for that.

Possible queries include following: Click

Google Flights/QPX Query Without Destination [closed]

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