FlightGlitch

Catch mistake fares before airlines fix them

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Brilliant! Is there normally enough availability at a glitchy price, or do you find that sending a bunch of users to the same flight with the glitchy price ends up with a bunch of people unable to book at that price?

Just signed up. First impression is that I LOVE being able to filter by my actual airport and budget. I don’t need 50 amazing deals from airports I’m never going to fly out of lol.

This is one of those products where the value becomes pretty obvious if it works. One good mistake fare could basically pay for years of the subscription.

mistake fares are basically a race against the airline noticing, so speed is everything here. how fast is the alert actually landing after the fare goes live, and once someone books on it have you seen airlines honor it consistently or is there a real risk of a "sorry, we're cancelling this ticket" email a week later

The is this fare actually going to ticket? angle is the killer feature for me. Finding a $180 flight to Europe is great. Finding out the airline canceled it AFTER you booked a nonrefundable hotel is not

Going user here 👋 I don’t necessarily think I’d cancel it immediately, but the AI analysis on error fares is genuinely interesting. I’ve always been nervous about booking hotels right after grabbing a suspiciously cheap flight. Going to test FlightGlitch alongside it and see how they compare.

How are you determining the risk that an airline will void an error fare? Is the AI looking at historical behavior from that specific airline or more at the characteristics of the fare itself? Really interesting feature either way.

Hey man! I've actually tried to build something similar before (though I gave up on it), so it's cool to see someone push it live. I kept hitting walls with the GDS APIs like Amadeus and Sabre, and even Duffel, and at any real scale the flight data pulling plus cron scheduling got iffy fast, both on cost and rate limits.

How did you end up solving that side? Are you polling routes on a fixed schedule or reacting to some cheaper signal, and did you stick with a GDS or find another source for the fare data? Really curious how you keep it fresh without the bill exploding. Congrats on shipping it.

@shahvyy Wait, the AI actually looks at the likelihood of a mistake fare being honored?? That’s such an obvious thing to add once you hear it, but I’ve never seen a flight deal service do it. Very cool.

Cool idea team.

I want to sign up and see it, but honestly not quite willing to drop my credit card yet. My recommendation - a short free trial so I can see a few alerts would probably have convinced me.

Good luck with the launch!

Really like that each deal comes with an AI breakdown of the route, pros/cons and the “things to know before booking” — with mistake fares the price is only half the decision. One thing I’d love to know: does that breakdown also flag how risky the fare is, i.e. the chance the airline voids the booking as an error, so I know when to hold off on booking hotels around it? Congrats on the launch!

This looks useful. Are there any limits on how many airports can be tracked at once, and how quickly are alerts typically sent after a deal is spotted? Congratulations!

It is thats great your app, but the thing its no working for my country. I hope in the future can cover extend more zonesIt is thats great your app, but its no working for my country. I hope in the future can cover extend more zones.

Scored a $138 roundtrip to Lisbon last week that would've been $900 on the airline site, alerts hit my inbox within minutes of the mistake going live. Game changer for spontaneous trips.