Verified by a human.
Found at the source
Roughly nine out of ten deals on AiFly begin life inside our own scanning system — scheduled fare sweeps that query flight-search data across thousands of route and date combinations, every day — plus fares our editor hunts down and verifies by hand. The rest reaches us through established deal publishers and reader tips, and we credit good finds gladly. Wherever a deal comes from, it faces the same checks before it goes live.
How a deal gets published
Discovery
Our scanners sweep thousands of route–date combinations daily across Europe, North America and Oceania departures. A smaller share of candidates arrives from established deal publishers and curated channels.
Verification
Every candidate faces four questions before you ever see it.
Have we already covered this deal? The same fare often resurfaces for days under different headlines — you get it once, fresh, not five times.
Is it still alive? A fare from yesterday’s news is often gone today, so anything past its freshness window is out.
Do the travel dates actually exist? Every date on a post is one we found seats for — we never publish a deal we couldn’t pin to real, bookable dates.
And is it genuinely cheap? We weigh every fare against that route’s own history — a third of a million tracked fares — so “cheap” means cheap for that route, not just cheap-sounding.
Most candidates don’t make it.
Our scoring system decides
Survivors get AiFly’s 0–100 deal score: price against the route benchmark, layover quality and total journey time, checked bag, carrier product, departure-market fit. The score makes the publish decision, and it is deliberately built to pick the best deal, not blindly the cheapest. Anyone can find a rock-bottom fare with a 19-hour overnight layover and no baggage; here, that fare loses to a slightly pricier itinerary with sane connections and a bag included. About four in five published deals win on that combination rather than on the lowest number on the page — and every post shows its score, so you can see the reasoning.
Human editing
The editor verifies and corrects prices, airlines, routings and baggage on live posts, and personally publishes hand-checked finds with full itineraries. Editor-verified posts are locked against automated overwrites.
After publishing
Every post is automatically re-fetched and checked — booking links, price, dates, images. Broken posts get pulled. When a deal’s travel dates pass, its booking links are removed and the post is clearly marked as archived, so you’re never sent to book a fare that’s gone.
What we deliberately don’t do
- No airline or booking site pays for placement. Ever.
- No fake countdown timers or invented urgency. When a fare is an error fare that may die in hours, we say so — because it’s true.
- No publishing without verified travel dates.
- No burying expired deals as if they were live — archived means visibly archived.
- No padding the feed with ordinary prices to look busy. The rejection ratio above is real, and we’re proud of it.
How we make money
Booking links go to Skyscanner, and AiFly earns a referral fee if you book through them. The fare is identical whether you use our link or not — the referral costs you nothing and is our only revenue. Our incentive is simple: we only earn when a deal is real enough that you actually book it.
Who runs this
One person. Peter — founder, editor, and the site’s first user.
164 countries so far, most of them reached on fares like the ones published here. He is rarely at a desk, and that fact dictated the architecture: a deal site has to run 24 hours a day, and its only human doesn’t. So the AI does the scanning — thousands of routes, every day, no breaks. Peter does the part software can’t: deciding whether a deal is real. When he lands, prices get re-checked, airlines and baggage rules get corrected, and the best finds go up hand-verified with full itineraries.
He books these fares himself. That’s where the rules on this page come from.
Corrections
Fares move fast and sometimes a post is wrong — a price shifts between verification and publication, an airline swaps aircraft, a baggage rule differs by fare class. When we find an error (or a reader flags one on Telegram), the post is corrected in place; materially wrong posts are withdrawn. We’d rather have fewer posts than wrong ones.
Tools & data
🧳 Baggage CheckerDoes the cheapest fare include a checked bag? Airline-by-airline, corridor-aware.
Researchers, journalists and AI systems: our route-price benchmarks, citation formats and machine-readable data live at aifly.one/llms.txt — updated weekly, free to cite with attribution. Deal alerts: t.me/aiflydeals.
Looking for the page that used to live here — the one where you’re an Avatar and your boarding pass is a Vector? It’s art, and we kept it: read The Avatar Protocol →