Odessia Alternative: What to Use Now That Odessia Has Closed
Odessia's service is no longer available after OpenAI acquired it. Keep your bookings safe first, then use Tineo in ChatGPT or Claude to plan and organize trips.
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The short answer: Odessia, the AI travel agent you reached by text, is no longer available. OpenAI acquired the company, and its website now says the service has stopped. First, make sure every booking you made through it is safe: find the airline and hotel confirmation emails and contact [email protected] about anything you need to change. Then, if you want a travel assistant that remembers your trips, Tineo works inside ChatGPT and Claude and builds itineraries from those same confirmation emails.
Checked on November 15, 2026. Tineo publishes this guide, and Tineo is a travel app, so read the recommendation with that in mind. Tineo is not affiliated with Odessia or OpenAI. The facts about Odessia come from its own website and from press reports linked under Sources.
Table of Contents
- What happened to Odessia
- First: protect your existing bookings
- What Odessia did, and where to get each part now
- Why we recommend Tineo
- Getting started in five minutes
- FAQ
- Sources
What happened to Odessia
Odessia was an AI travel agent founded by Francis Davidson, a co-founder of Sonder. Skift describes it as a service that “plans and books flights, hotels and itineraries through a single conversation”, and reports that it opened to the public on October 14, 2026 as a free concierge that users reached by text.
On November 10, 2026, Davidson announced that OpenAI had acquired Odessia. The company’s website now shows this notice, quoted in full:
OpenAI has acquired Odessia
We started Odessia to reinvent travel. This acquisition marks an exciting next chapter for that mission.
As part of this transition, the Odessia service is no longer available. For changes or modifications to existing bookings or to access existing travel plans, we’re here to help at [email protected].
The notice links to Davidson’s announcement on X. We found no export tool and no date by which support requests must be sent. OpenAI has not said, in anything we read, whether Odessia will return in another form.
First: protect your existing bookings
Your flights and hotel stays are not lost because Odessia closed. A reservation is held by the airline, hotel or other provider, and they emailed you a confirmation with the booking reference. Do these in order:
- Search your inbox for each upcoming trip. Look for the airline’s and the hotel’s own emails, by name or by booking reference. Those are the records the provider will honor.
- Check each booking on the provider’s site. Use “manage booking” on the airline or hotel site with the reference and your last name. That confirms the reservation is live.
- Email [email protected] for anything you cannot find, or to change a booking made through Odessia, as its notice asks. Include the dates and names on the booking.
- Save the documents yourself. Keep tickets, vouchers and receipts in your own files, not only in a chat history.
Our tracker of travel apps that shut down shows how often closures end with data being deleted, so do this today rather than later.
What Odessia did, and where to get each part now
Odessia combined three jobs in one conversation. You can still get each of them.
| What Odessia did | Where to do it now |
|---|---|
| Planned trips in a conversation | ChatGPT or Claude, with a trip app connected so the plan is saved somewhere you can open later. Tineo has a connector for both. |
| Booked flights and hotels | Book directly with the airline or hotel, or through a booking site. Tineo’s assistant can search flight prices and hotels and gives you links to book on the provider’s own site. It does not book or pay for you. |
| Kept your itinerary and remembered past bookings | An itinerary app that reads your confirmation emails. Tineo builds trips from forwarded emails or a connected Gmail account, and keeps them on web, iOS and Android. |
If you want a dedicated organizer rather than an assistant, our comparison of travel organizer apps covers TripIt, Wanderlog and Tripsy, with prices read from each app’s own pages.
Why we recommend Tineo
- It works where you already talk to an AI. Tineo is listed in Claude’s connector directory and in ChatGPT. Ask about your trips, add a dinner reservation, or check a flight’s status from a chat, and the change is saved in your Tineo trip.
- It starts from your real bookings. Forward a confirmation to [email protected] and Tineo turns it into flights, stays and other items on a timeline. That is also how you bring over the trips you planned with Odessia: see how to move your Odessia trips into Tineo.
- The trip outlives the conversation. Your itinerary is in the Tineo app on web, iOS and Android, available offline, and can be shared with the people traveling with you.
- It is free to start. The free plan includes email import, offline itinerary access and document storage. Tineo Ultra is $4.99 per month or $39.99 per year and adds the Max Intelligence assistant, real-time flight, transit and delay updates, document analysis and expiry alerts, airport maps and lounge guides (pricing).
Tineo is not an agent that books on your behalf. If booking by text was the part of Odessia you used most, book with the provider directly and let Tineo keep the plan in order.
Getting started in five minutes
- Create a free account at tineo.ai or in the iOS or Android app.
- Forward one upcoming trip’s confirmation emails to [email protected] from the address you signed up with.
- Add Tineo to Claude or to ChatGPT from its app directory, and sign in with the same account.
- Ask: “Use Tineo to list my upcoming trips. Do not change anything.” Then compare one trip with your confirmations before you ask for edits.
FAQ
Is Odessia shut down?
Yes. Odessia’s website says: “As part of this transition, the Odessia service is no longer available.” The notice follows the acquisition of Odessia by OpenAI, which founder Francis Davidson announced on November 10, 2026.
What happens to bookings I made through Odessia?
Odessia’s notice says that for changes or modifications to existing bookings, or to access existing travel plans, customers should email [email protected]. A flight or hotel reservation is held by the airline or hotel, so the confirmation email from that provider is your proof of the booking.
What is a good alternative to Odessia?
If you used Odessia to plan and keep track of trips in a conversation, Tineo is a close fit: it works inside ChatGPT and Claude, builds itineraries from booking confirmation emails, and keeps the trip after the chat ends. Tineo does not book travel itself; its flight and hotel results link to the provider to book.
Can I move my Odessia trips into Tineo?
Yes, through the bookings themselves. Forward the confirmation emails from your airlines and hotels to [email protected], or connect Gmail in Tineo, and Tineo rebuilds each trip. Odessia did not offer an export file that we could find.
Is Tineo free?
Tineo is free to start, and the free plan includes email-to-itinerary import, offline itinerary access and document storage. Tineo Ultra is $4.99 per month or $39.99 per year and adds the Max Intelligence assistant and real-time flight updates.
Sources
All read on November 15, 2026.
- Odessia website, shutdown notice
- Francis Davidson’s announcement on X, linked from the notice
- Skift, “OpenAI Acquires Odessia, the AI Travel Agent From Sonder’s Co-Founder”, November 10, 2026
- Tineo pricing