First select whether you want a one-way, round-trip, or weekend Fare Alert. Then, enter your origin and destination. Round-trip Fare Alerts contain the total price of both legs of your potential trip.

“Weekend Alerts” are our favorites. You specify that you want to go somewhere for a weekend in any particular month, enter your price, and the system shows you the cheapest possible weekend trip for that month and destination. If you know you want to take a trip at some point but are flexible with your dates, this feature helps you decide based on price. The system searches for Friday departures and Sunday return flights for that month and provides you with the cheapest combination.

As you enter your alert, you must specify whether you want to receive alerts only the price is lower than your stated “max price,” or whether you want to receive them daily.

Then click “confirm” and you’re done. Just wait for a match and start saving!

If you specified you want to receive Fare Alerts “daily,” you’ll get an email or SMS every day with the lowest fare for that route at around 5pm.

If you specified “max price” than we’ll only send you an email or SMS when the price you specified, or anything lower than that is found. After you receive your first email or SMS for a “max price” alert, you’ll only receive additional emails or SMS’s if an even lower price is found. Pretty cool, right?

To stop receiving messages about that or any alert, simply remove the checkboxes next to email and SMS, or delete the alert entirely.

You will receive alerts only if you specify that you want to. The two checkboxes in my alerts, “SMS and “Email” should be checked depending on how you want to receive those alerts. If you want to adjust where those alerts are sent, go to notification settings and edit your email or phone number.

To see an example of the email you’ll receive when your fare is matched, click here.