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Old Nov 19, 2022 | 3:22 pm
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Originally Posted by MaxVO
I got the lowest price on a flight of interest by checking fares a couple of times a week. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are often popular for lower fares. If you require notifications that help you, you'll have to program them yourself. Can't expect Google Flights to undermine their own paying advertising customers (airlines).
one of the alternatives I found is using ExpertFlyer to watch for when lower level/price fare buckets become available. Although not real time, it seems to me that EF performs checks for programmed alerts pretty frequently (multiple times per day)

any pitfalls with that technique ?
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