Passengers using trains, planes, buses, and ferries can now search for transportation options by chatting to a new ChatGPT-powered app that promises “real, bookable journeys in seconds.”
Multi-modal platform Omio already features among Travel Tomorrow’s must-have travel apps for 2026. It serves a whopping one billion users annually, allowing them to plan journeys across 47 countries and multiple modes of transport. It has now launched the additional agentic capability of in-app ChatGPT, describing the move in a press release as “a key step in Omio’s ambition to become a leading AI-native platform.” The breakthrough offers passengers the possibility to search and compare travel options in real time through conversational prompts.
Omio highlights that the development comes at a time when “over half of travellers want artificial intelligence to plan and book their trips.” The firm says it will meet demand from ChatGPT’s 900 million weekly users through its global network of more than 3,000 transport partners.
“We are enabling thousands of travel providers to be discovered in new ways and to extend their reach within a global, intelligent ecosystem,” said Omio’s founder and CEO, Naren Shaam, hailing the app’s launch as “a step towards building the infrastructure that will shape how billions of journeys are discovered and booked worldwide now, and in the future.”
While third-party search and compare travel booking platforms already exist, they often still require consumers to switch between multiple sites and tick multiple checkboxes and filters. Omio’s ChatGPT tool merges a global travel inventory with advanced large language models, following a year-long collaboration with artificial general intelligence mission, OpenAI, and now allows users to “ask the same questions they would pose to a travel agent” to “instantly explore routes, prices, and options across multiple modes before booking,” the firm claims.
Omio provides examples that it says show off the natural style of questions that can be asked, including:
- What’s the fastest and cheapest route from Rome to Florence this Saturday?
- Should I take a train or a flight from Paris to Barcelona?
- I need to get from São Paulo to Rio tomorrow morning. Should I take a bus or fly?
Promising “more exciting announcements to follow,” Tomas Vocetka, Omio’s Chief Technology Officer, welcomed an era of “intelligent travel,” that would see consumers benefitting from technology that “anticipates your journey before you even start.”
The Omio ChatGPT app is out now and available worldwide in English.
