About The Flight Agent

Last updated: September 3, 2026

The Flight Agent watches flight prices so you don't have to. You tell it a route and a target price; it checks fares around the clock and messages you when one drops below your number.

Who runs this

The Flight Agent is not a company with a content team. It is one person who builds the software, runs the infrastructure, answers the support email and edits everything published on this site. If something here is wrong, there is exactly one person to tell, and he reads it.

That has a bearing on how you should read the blog, so it is written down in full on the editorial policy page: what is researched, what is drafted with AI assistance, who checks it, and where the numbers come from.

What the service actually does

You create a "scout" for a route — say Colombo to Bangkok — and set a budget. From then on:

• The scout re-checks live fares on that route on a schedule, continuously, without you opening anything.
• When a fare comes in under your target, you get an alert by email, Telegram or push notification.
• The alert links straight through to a booking option, so you can act while the fare is still there.

Fare data comes from Travelpayouts and Duffel. Hotel availability comes from LiteAPI. We are a monitoring and alerting service — the booking itself happens with the airline or the travel agent on the other end of that link.

How we make money

Stating this plainly because it affects what you read here:

• Subscriptions. The service is free to start. Additional scouts beyond the free allowance are $5 per month each.
• Affiliate commissions. If you book through a link on this site, we may earn a commission from the booking partner. It does not change your price.

We do not accept payment from airlines to feature them, review them favourably, or place them in an article. No post on this site is sponsored, and none has been paid for by a third party. If that ever changes, it will be labelled on the post itself.

Why the blog exists

Most of what makes flying cheaper or less painful is procedural knowledge: which loyalty programme credits what, what an airline's actual baggage allowance is on your specific ticket, whether you can leave the airport on a layover, what you are owed when a connection is missed. It is all documented somewhere, usually badly, on a page that is hard to find.

The blog answers those questions one at a time and links to the airline's or government's own page for every rule it states, so you can verify it and see it for yourself when it changes.

Get in touch

Corrections, questions, partnership enquiries and complaints all go to the same inbox, and it is a real one. See the contact page.