Observed fares, dated, on 40 routes
We read fares every day on 40 routes from 6 cities and keep each one with the day we read it. The band shows where today's price sits against the last ninety days.
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. 40 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.
Live board
Updated each morning. A tick left of the band is cheaper than nine fares in ten. The twelve closest to their floor are here, the rest on the routes page.
Below the tenth percentile
A deal here is a fare we read at or below p10 of its own band. It is a price on a stated day, not an offer.
Read this week
Short answers to the questions travellers type before they pay, each built around one figure we read ourselves, with the day and the page.
The quiet costs
Compensation you are owed, an eSIM that is not an airport price, insurance that pays, a transfer booked before you land.
Method
One fare per route per day, stored with the moment it was read, the dates, the carrier and the currency. Nothing is averaged before storage.
The tenth percentile, the median and the ninetieth over a rolling ninety days, computed on integer minor units so no rounding accumulates.
A route page enters the index only above sixty observations, ninety days of history and three carriers. Below that it says so and keeps collecting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.