Track flight prices based on route, not specific dates, on Google Flights
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It's definitely not possible right now -- the closest you can get is setting a ton of alerts covering the range of dates you want. As far as I know, no travel site allows setting super-flexible alerts right now since it requires making a lot of queries every day (which can get pretty expensive, especially if you're using a GDS (Apollo/Sabre) as your data source).
In the meantime, I'd recommend:
- Setting lots of alerts (Google Flights is so fast that it doesn't take more than 5-10 minutes to set 30 alerts! It also helpfully groups alerts from/to the same places)
- Setting one-way alerts in each direction (especially on shorter routes where the round trip price is almost always roughly equal) so that you have fewer combinations of alerts to check/set
- Checking back regularly on the site
It's frustrating that there's no better solution right now, but I'm sure someone is working on it!
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EDIT: I missed the point that automatic tracking is needed, but this allows for manual check.
As described here - it is possible now
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As far as I know, no travel site allows setting super-flexible alerts right now
Kiwi allows alerting through date period.
I do not know how good this function really works, but just for you to know. I set it up and received Kiwi notifications only occasionally, so have no idea if the prices didn't change or it's not working properly.
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There is a website in Brazil that allows users to set price alerts regardless of dates (voopter.com.br). All you have to do is set a departure and destination airport and select the highest fare you would be willing to pay (be it a one-way or round trip). It's a collaborative platform, so the more people search flights on it, the higher are the chances to be alerted. Unfortunately, it's not a widespread website, but I still manage to receive alerts for popular destinations all the time. I love it because they use several other flight search platforms so you don't have to spend time looking around.
That's how I think Google should do, too. People are constantly searching for flights on Google Flights, so they could use these cheap flight results originating from other people to alert flexible travelers. It's quite easy to determine whether a flight is cheap or not based on its price history. Actually, your alerts would be based on the highest acceptable price you select on the platform.
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