Understanding Date Ranges & Multiple Airlines In Same Alert

First let's discuss the date ranges

If it says Aug-Dec 2023 for the date range on an alert, that translates to = The alerted price can be found at least 1 or more dates in each of the following months. August, September, October, November and December.

Let's look at a recent example alert

However, the alert includes 2 different airlines and upon clicking to view on Google Flights, you would see the following for this particular alert.

As you can see, it shows American Airlines at the alerted price but United Airlines is showing $334.

Did we make a mistake? No.

We just provide the alert destination, the departure airport, the date range and the airlines available at the alerted price.

So when you click "View On Google Flights" or "View Deal Online" we always provide a link for you to easily pull up and view a live example of the deal, with the departure airport, destination, price etc. The photo above is what you would see upon viewing this alert on Google Flights.

However, although both of these airlines are on sale at the alerted price, they are not always on sale on the exact same dates of departure and return. It simply means, during these date ranges, the following airline carriers can be found multiple times at the alerted price during these months of the year.

Then, the best way to find what days, if lets say the best deals is found on a website that doesn't allow you to easily locate the cheapest dates for each month of the year, is to take the information we gave you, note the website that we told has it the cheapest (which is why we linked to it), and then go to Google Flights and input that information and click search.

Once Google Flights loads, or if we linked to it you can click on the departure date and a calendar will pull up, and as long as you do not have a really weak internet connection, you will be able to view the price for every single day of the year, as show below.

Once you click on a departure date, you will then see what dates of return are your options in order to keep the price at the price you were seeing for the departure day. So the prices change from departure to return.

The first prices are saying to you "Look at all these dates, and this is the cheapest date to depart on"

Then the prices will change, and it's now saying to you "Based on your departure date chosen, this will be the final price if you choose this day to return" It's an amazing tool for finding all of the available options for travel dates for our alerts. You simply use our date range as a cheat sheet, and then come to Google Flights and use their search calendar to find the cheapest dates.

Google Flights Filters

Look at this photo and examine what you are seeing, and we will explain it below.

If you look below the departure city and destination you see filters, one of them says 1-stop or fewer, which means do not show me any flights that require two connections.

Then I have a max layover time I am willing to do, set at 4hr and 30 min.

Here is the solution, we are going to select "United Only"

Now when we click on the Calendar, all the prices seen will be for the selected airline only.

We clicked Aug 19th depart and return on the 26th and we get the following results.

There are the United Fares at the alerted price.

So in short, if more than one airline is mentioned in the alert and you have a preference, use the filter to tell Google to only show you prices for that airline.

Then after you have done so and you click the departure date again to pull up the rate calendar, all the prices shown will be for the airline or airlines if more than 1 that you selected in the filter.

In this alert, United only has fares on sale for a some of the alerted dates vs. all of them, so to find the dates they have those fares we will select "United Airlines Only" in the filters.

When reading our alerts, always read the as so.

1. Price
2. Date Rage (means price can be found in this date range
3. Airlines Mentioned (Airlines available, that have at least a few or many dates available within the date range at the alerted price)