How It Works

How TrackAFare monitors prices

We check live fares on your behalf, build a price history, and surface deals using statistical analysis — so you know whether today's price is a real bargain or just average.

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Live price checks
At each scheduled check time we query live fares across all your origin airports to your destination, filtered by your cabin, stops, and trip-length preferences. Each result is stored with a timestamp.
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Price history & trend detection
Prices are tracked over time. We compare your last 7 days against the 7 days before that. If the average moves more than 5%, you'll see a rising or falling trend indicator on your dashboard. Longer history (Monthly keeps up to 30 days, Explorer up to 90) makes this far more reliable.
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Percentile deal scoring
Every deal is scored against the distribution of prices we've seen for that route. A price at or below the 25th percentile gets a Great price badge — meaning it's cheaper than 75% of all prices seen. At or above the 75th percentile gets Pricier, and anything in between is Typical. This beats a simple "up/down" signal because it tells you how good the deal is in absolute terms. A new route needs a few days of checks before it has enough prices to score against: until then you'll see Building history, or, once we have enough recent prices for it, a starred estimate (a different rule — more than 5% below the typical price we've seen) for an India route searched as an economy return trip with no children and no departure/return time filter, built from everyone's comparable searches on that route and compared stop-for-stop with your own stops setting.
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Seasonal peak detection
For Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru (Diwali, Christmas, summer school holidays) and Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha (Christmas, summer school holidays), we know when prices typically spike. When one of those peak windows is coming up for your travel dates, you'll see a banner prompting you to consider booking sooner. Other destinations don't have peak alerts yet.
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What happens when you click Book
Book runs a live check against real booking partners — usually under a minute, instant if we already checked that exact deal in the last 20 minutes — then shows you several options side by side. Pick one and you'll complete the purchase on that airline or booking partner's own site (a general flight-search page if a partner has no direct link available): TrackAFare never takes payment for your flight. On the Free plan this is unlocked for your top deal only; paid plans unlock it for every deal shown. See the Booking FAQ for more.
Why price history length matters
Free — 7 days
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You can see this week vs last week. Enough to spot a sudden spike, but you can't tell if today's price is seasonally high or genuinely cheap. A price of £380 might look normal when the week before was £390 — but zoom out and you'd see it's been £320 all month.

Monthly — up to 30 days

A full month of price history on your chart — you can see where today's price sits against the month. You'll catch the mid-month dip that 7-day users miss entirely, and the trend indicator becomes statistically meaningful.

Explorer — up to 90 days

Three months of data reveals seasonal patterns — the Diwali spike in October, the January lull, the summer school-holiday surge. The AI prediction model is trained on this full window, giving you a reliable forecast of whether prices will rise or fall in the next 2–4 weeks.

Which plan is right for you?

What you actually get with each plan.

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Free — 7-day trial

Get to know what TrackAFare offers — track one route free for 7 days, no card required.

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Monthly — £7.99/mo

One route, checked daily, with up to 3 live-verified deals per email, price alerts and more reliable AI predictions — Monthly keeps checking after your trial ends, so the model has more history to train on. Cancel anytime.

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Explorer — £79/yr

Everything in Monthly, plus a second route and up to 2 checks a day, data export and watermark-free shares. WhatsApp alerts (coming soon).

Why check frequency matters more than you'd think
Real scenario: A London–Chennai fare drops to £298 at 9 PM on a Thursday night for 4 hours. A single daily check (Free and Monthly, e.g. at 6 AM) never sees it. An Explorer user's 2 daily checks, with one scheduled for 10 PM — our latest available slot — catches it before the sale ends.

Airlines release flash sales, mistake fares, and last-minute inventory at irregular hours. A single check per day has roughly a 1-in-24 chance of hitting the right window. Two checks per day (Explorer) roughly doubles that to 1-in-12.

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