Are you planning your next adventure, like I told you to?
Then you need to know about yapta.com
Ignore how hideous the homepage is. You're going to love this thing.
Let me show you.
When you're planning a flight, start on the homepage and click on "flights" (with the gray airplane icon) toward the bottom left of your screen.
Click on "Flights," in blue, toward the bottom.
Then enter whatever flight you want to search. It's powered by kayak.com, so you get all kinds of easy levers and controls to adjust your search. But THEN comes the good stuff. You can choose "Track price drops." Look for it below each flight option.
Click on the orange "Track price drops."
Why are you going to love this? Three reasons.
One, if you go ahead and buy your flight, you will be alerted if the price drops. Granted, most airlines charge an extortionate $200 change fee now (except our beloved jetblue, who only charge $75) BUT, if your flight drops more than the cost of a change fee, VOILA, you call up that airline and get yourself a nice little refund or credit.
Two, if you're not ready to buy your flight for whatever reason, yapta will be back there tracking it and alerting you when it drops. Let's say you're looking to fly somewhere and you have an idea of what you want to pay or what it should cost. Yapta is fantastic for that. You can wait to pull the trigger until it hits the price you want (no guarantees, but see point Three, next).
A yapta email alert.
Three, you end up learning something about how volatile flight prices really are. Go to the site anytime and click on the "my trips" button to see prices on all your tracked flights.
Go to "My Trips" to see a snapshot of all your tracking.
Over the years, for example, I've learned that NY - Miami prices fluctuate a lot. By hundreds of dollars in the course of a week sometimes. Often (though not always), those prices come back to a certain baseline about a week before. If you've got a city-pair that you travel often, this is good intel.
And intel is KEY to maxing out your adventure potential.
See? I told you you'd love this thing.