Find nonstop flights and a hotel under $400 a night with ChatGPT agent

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Oct 29, 2025 by Greg Secrist (BKA Content)

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Oct 16, 2026

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BKA Content's Greg Secrist asked ChatGPT agent for nonstop Salt Lake City to Las Vegas flights for October 8–11 plus hotel rooms under $400 per night. It worked across Delta, Expedia and Booking.com but struggled with JavaScript-heavy pages and date pickers, sometimes looping or freezing; after almost nine minutes it returned some options he says he could have found manually in half the time.

Agent

ChatGPT agent

The source didn't share its exact prompt, so we wrote this from what it describes.

Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to.

Goal: Find nonstop round-trip flights and a hotel that fit my dates and nightly budget, and give me a shortlist I can book myself.

Fill in before running:
- From / to: [ORIGIN] → [DESTINATION]
- Dates: [DEPART DATE] – [RETURN DATE]
- Travellers: [NUMBER]
- Hotel max per night: [AMOUNT]
- Area or must-haves for the hotel: [e.g. near the Strip, free parking]

Rules:
- Nonstop flights only; list airline, times and total round-trip price per person.
- For hotels, give the nightly price and the total with taxes and resort fees where shown.
- If a date picker or filter won't work after two tries, try another site rather than looping.
- Do not book or hold anything.
- If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me.
- Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything.
- Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify.

Output: Two tables: the 3 best flight options and the 3 best hotels, each with price, key details and a link.

You'll know it worked when: every option is nonstop, inside my budget, on my dates, and the links open the exact option.

Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to.

Goal: Find nonstop round-trip flights and a hotel that fit my dates and nightly budget, and give me a shortlist I can book myself.

Fill in before running:
- From / to: [ORIGIN] → [DESTINATION]
- Dates: [DEPART DATE] – [RETURN DATE]
- Travellers: [NUMBER]
- Hotel max per night: [AMOUNT]
- Area or must-haves for the hotel: [e.g. near the Strip, free parking]

Rules:
- Nonstop flights only; list airline, times and total round-trip price per person.
- For hotels, give the nightly price and the total with taxes and resort fees where shown.
- If a date picker or filter won't work after two tries, try another site rather than looping.
- Do not book or hold anything.
- If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me.
- Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything.
- Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify.
- Tell me how long the search took and which sites failed, so I know whether to just search myself next time.

Output: Two tables: the 3 best flight options and the 3 best hotels, each with price, key details and a link.

You'll know it worked when: every option is nonstop, inside my budget, on my dates, and the links open the exact option.

Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.

Source

https://bkacontent.com/how-to-use-chatgpt-agent-mode/