I’m on Skiplagged constantly because these two tools make it my fave spot for tracking flight prices:

1. How early should you buy a flight? Skiplagged gives you an idea by showing how far out fares on your route start to skyrocket. Here I can see that fares on a sample route don’t start to rise drastically in price until you’re 8-12 days out from a given departure date:

2. If you want to make an educated guess on whether your flight could drop in price, check out the data Skiplagged provides next to each flight in your search:

Because of the price history I guessed that the flight above would drop in price, since it was more than a month out from the flight, and I snagged the flight when it dropped into one of its $197 valleys.

Get to the news plz.

So this week I noticed Southwest Airlines flights appearing in Skiplagged searches. I don’t know how long this has been active, but I just noticed it. Continue reading →

Booking flights with Skiplagged can save you hundreds of dollars, as discussed here.

Yesterday I experienced for the first time one of the risks of Skiplagging: getting sent to a city you weren’t trying to go to.

How? Continue reading →

I write this as my United flight jets from SFO toward San Diego, without me onboard.

I didn’t miss my flight though.

I skipped the last leg. Continue reading →