How our prices work
Every price on FareTell was found by a traveler's search on Aviasales. Aviasales shares those results with travel sites like ours through Travelpayouts, and we collect them for every departure airport they cover, one-way and return. We show each price for up to 7 days after it was found, with how long ago that was. When a route has nothing that recent, its page shows the newest older price, up to 30 days old, with the day it was found. We do not sell tickets: you book with the airline or travel agency you choose on Aviasales.
How often we look
We ask for new prices airport by airport, as often as each one is busy: the busiest departure airports every hour, the next busiest every 6 hours, other airports with recent prices once a day, and the rest once a week. Fares Aviasales flags as unusually low are collected once a day for every departure city. On the busiest routes we also ask for premium economy, business and first-class fares, once a day, or once a week for a cabin that had none. A page's prices change only when new ones arrive; how long ago each was found is worked out each time you open the page.
Why a price can be different when you click
Airlines change fares many times a day. The cheapest seats on a flight sell first, and when they are gone the next seat costs more; sometimes a fare comes back cheaper. So a price found hours ago can move either way by the time you look. Our saved prices come from Aviasales' United States market, and the Aviasales site in your country, or a live search from your country, can show a different price for the same flight. We show how long ago each price was found. After 7 days a price shows only on a route that has nothing newer, with the day it was found, and never after 30 days.
Which price we show first
A route's headline price is the cheapest fare found today or yesterday; if there is none, it is the most recently found fare, with its age. Every other price stays on the page with its age. Lists put first the prices we can stand behind, because in our checks they were the ones most often still on sale: any price found today or yesterday, and a one-way found in the last 7 days. A return found 2 or more days ago comes after them. How we judge whether a price is good is on how we spot a deal.
How often our prices hold
We check our own prices by hand. On 24 September 2026 we searched 50 headline prices from our pages on Aviasales: for 94% of them, that date still had a fare at our price or cheaper, or no more than 5% above it.
Which routes have a page
A route has its own page when, for return or one-way trips, we hold fares on at least 3 departure dates and a price we can stand behind. A "flights from" or "flights to" page needs prices we can stand behind to at least 5 cities. For any other trip, our search shows the prices we hold for your dates, with a live search beside them.
Currency
Prices are in US dollars. For flights leaving Canada we show Canadian dollars first, converted at the Bank of Canada's daily rate, with the US dollar price beside it. When you click through, Aviasales opens in the currency the page showed; a site that does not take Canadian dollars opens in US dollars. When you check a fare you found, you can type it in any currency the Bank of Canada publishes a daily rate for; we convert it at that day's rate and say which rate we used.
Fees and bags
Each price is the price the seller showed on Aviasales. A seller can add its own fees at checkout, and checked bags and seat choice may cost extra; the seller's page shows the final price before you pay. A trip on separate tickets may mean collecting your bags and checking in again at the connection; we say so on the trip when we can tell.
Who a price covers
Every saved price is for one adult, and each says whether it is a return or a one-way. Most are economy; on the busiest routes we also keep premium economy, business and first-class fares, each shown under its cabin and never counted in an economy price or range. We never turn a price into one for a group or for another cabin. For more travelers or another cabin, the live search and Aviasales show those prices.
Sellers we leave out
A few sellers are left out of FareTell altogether. In our checks their prices sat far below every other seller's on the same flights, and their customers report being asked for more money after they tried to book. We never show their prices, and our pages remove them from live search results too.
Searches on FareTell add prices
When a live search runs on FareTell, we keep a summary of the cheapest results it showed: the trip, prices, flights and sellers, and nothing that identifies you. Results from Aviasales' United States market, in US dollars, join our saved prices with the time they appeared. A price we have only from such a search opens its dates' search on Aviasales.
Fare alerts
Email watches are not open. FareTell does not ask for an email address for them and does not take one, and no alert emails are going out. An address given to us before this was switched off is held in encrypted form and used only for the alert that person asked for; the links in any message we sent still work, including the one-click unsubscribe. We are not promising a date for watches opening.
Photographs
Destination photographs are used under licences we record, and they are there to illustrate. A photograph never tells you anything about a price.
What we never do
- Show a price we found earlier as if you could buy it right now at that price.
- Turn a single price into a family price, or guess who a price covers.
- Invent a rush. If a price is gone, it is gone; the partner page is always the truth.
You always check the current price on the partner’s site. That is on purpose: the partner sets the final price, and we never stand between you and it.