Can I hide certain airlines from the flight results on my website?

Yes, in most cases you can. Flight search can be set up with a list of airlines you want to include, or a list you want to leave out, and the results your customer sees are filtered to match. Agents usually do this when they have no agreement with a particular carrier, when they have had repeated service problems with one, or when they want to push the airlines they earn more from. The filter can normally be applied to your whole website or kept to certain routes or markets, so you are not forced into one rule for everything.

There are a few honest limits worth knowing. Some suppliers accept the airline filter at the point of search, which is cleaner and faster, while others return everything and the filter is applied to the results afterwards. Either way your customer sees only what you allow, but the second method can mean slightly fewer options on the page. Codeshare flights are the other thing to watch. A flight can be sold under one airline name but actually operated by another, so a flight you thought you had removed may still appear under a partner name. Which airlines you can sell at all also depends on your supplier and your plan, so a carrier may be missing simply because it is not in your content.

The main risk is filtering too hard. Every airline you remove takes away fares, and if you block a popular low cost carrier on a busy route your prices can start to look high next to other websites. Most agents get better results by leaving the airlines in and using markup rules to steer preference instead.

Write down the airlines you want excluded and the routes it should apply to, then ask us to confirm whether your current flight content supports filtering at search level or only on the results.