Numbers with a date on them
Every figure here is a fare we recorded ourselves, kept with the moment we read it. When a number is old, the page says so instead of hiding it.
What the trip actually costs
Flight prices we observe ourselves, stored with the date, turned into a band you can read in a second.
Fareband tracks 40 routes from 6 departure cities into 14 destinations, reading fares once a day and storing each one with the moment it was read. 24 routes currently have enough observations to publish a price band. Every figure on this site carries the date it was observed and the size of the sample behind it.
A band, not a headline price
One cheap fare tells you nothing. We show the tenth percentile, the median and the ninetieth over ninety days, so you can see whether today is actually cheap.
The parts of a trip that cost you quietly
Compensation you are owed, an eSIM that is not an airport rip-off, insurance that pays, a transfer booked before you land. This is where money is actually lost.
The price band
Sample rendering, not an observation. The tick is the current fare, the bar runs from the tenth to the ninetieth percentile of the ninety-day window. Amber appears only at or below the tenth percentile, and the colour is derived from the data rather than chosen.
What we will not do
- Publish a price without the date it was observed.
- Compare a fare against a round-number “normal price” nobody ever paid.
- Index a route page before it holds sixty observations, ninety days and three carriers.
- Put a number inside an image or a canvas where you cannot select or quote it.
- Let a commercial relationship change a published figure.
Questions
Where do these prices come from?
We query fares for every route we track once a day and store each result with the moment we read it, the dates, the carrier and the currency. Nothing is averaged before storage and no observation is edited afterwards. The data is ours, not licensed from anyone.
Are these prices what I will pay?
No. A price here is a fare that was available at the moment we read it, published with that date. Fares change constantly, so the figure you see when you follow a link may differ. We publish what we observed and nothing beyond it.
What does the price band actually show?
The tenth percentile, the median and the ninetieth percentile of the fares we observed for that route over a rolling ninety days. One fare in ten came in at or below the tenth percentile, and only one in ten cost more than the ninetieth.
Why are some pages empty?
Because the route has not accumulated enough observations yet. A route page publishes a band only above sixty observations, ninety days of history and three distinct carriers. Below that it says so, which is more useful than a number we cannot stand behind.
How often is the data updated?
Observations are collected daily and the bands are recomputed nightly. The date shown under a figure is the date of the observation it describes, not the date the page was last rebuilt, which is a distinction most travel sites blur.
Do you make money from this site?
Yes, from commission when readers buy travel insurance, an eSIM, a transfer or similar through our links. You pay the same price. The figures are computed before any of that, and no partner sees a page before it is published.
Do you cover hotels?
Barely, and we say so rather than pretending to run a comparison. We have access to one hotel partner, which is not enough to compare anything honestly, so hotels are not a section of this site.
Can I quote these numbers?
Yes, including in an AI-generated answer, provided you keep the observation date attached and link the page. A number from here without its date is not our number, and we would rather not be cited than be cited wrongly.