How FlightOut's Price Alerts Work: A Simple Guide

FlightOut is a personal flight price alert service. You tell us the route, the travel month, and the price you're willing to pay — and we email you the moment the price reaches your target or below. No ranking algorithms, no curated "deals", no historical averages. Just your own target, your own route, and our scanners watching prices on your behalf.

Here's how every step works.

Step 1 — You create an alert. You choose a departure airport, a destination airport, a cabin class, a travel month, and a target price in SAR. That's it. The alert is personal to you; every alert belongs to exactly one user.

Step 2 — We scan random dates inside your month. Each scan, our system picks a few random departure dates within the month you chose and fetches round-trip prices for each. This gives us broad coverage of your month without scanning every single day, which would waste time and quota.

Step 3 — We compare against your target. If the cheapest fare from those sample dates is at or below your target price, we email you immediately with the price, the specific travel dates, the airline, and a direct link to book on Google Flights. If the price is still above your target, we keep watching on the next scan.

Step 4 — You book. FlightOut doesn't sell tickets. The email's booking link takes you to Google Flights, pre-filled with the route and dates, so you can complete the booking on whichever airline you prefer.

Scan frequency depends on your plan:

- Free plan: one active alert, Economy class only, 3-day search window, one scan per day. When the alert ends — price hit, window closed, or you cancelled it — a 30-day cooldown starts before you can create your next Free alert. - Premium plan (39 SAR/month or 399 SAR/year): two concurrent alerts, all cabin classes including Business and First, a search window you choose from 1 to 12 months, one scan every 6 hours, and "getting close" emails when the observed price comes within 15% of your target — so you can decide whether to wait or lower your number.

Round-trip only. FlightOut currently monitors round-trip itineraries. Most leisure travelers fly round-trip, and round-trip pricing is typically cheaper per direction than two one-way tickets.

Prices in SAR. Your target, the observed price, and everything shown in the alert email are in Saudi riyals. You set one number, you understand it, and you never have to convert currencies to judge whether an alert is a match.

That's the whole system. A target price you chose, scans running on the cadence your plan allows, and an email the moment your target is reached.