About Flight Risk
Flight Risk watches the price of direct flights leaving Australia and emails you when one drops well below what that route normally costs.
Why a price alone tells you nothing
Most "cheap flight" lists are just low numbers. But a fare is only a deal relative to its own route, trip length and how far ahead you are booking. A three-week trip priced five months out behaves nothing like the same trip booked six weeks out.
So we store every price we see and build a picture of what each route actually costs over time. A fare has to be both well below that route's typical price and low in absolute terms before it counts as anything. Either test on its own produces constant noise; together they are rare enough to be worth an email.
Every alert is checked by a person
Automated detection finds candidates. It does not send them. Each one goes into a review queue where a human looks at the evidence and confirms the fare is real and bookable before it reaches anyone. That is deliberately slower, and it is why you will not get an alert for a fare that has already vanished or never existed.
Direct flights only
We only track nonstop services. Connections open up an enormous range of itineraries and prices, and sorting genuinely good ones from merely long ones is a different problem from the one this service solves.
What we are not
- We do not sell tickets, take bookings, or handle payments.
- We are not an airline, travel agent, or affiliate of one.
- We do not guarantee any fare will still be available when you look — airlines change prices continuously, and a genuinely good fare often does not last.
Who runs it
Flight Risk is published by Mark Andrews. You can reach us at andrewsmark629@gmail.com. See the contact page for more.