Wingman news

Families and business class

2026-10-18T20:22:00+02:00

Until now, every price in Wingman was for one adult in economy. That's how most fare trackers work, and it isn't how most people travel.

Now each watch has its travellers and cabin: up to 9 people, adults and children aged 2 to 11, in economy, premium economy, business or first. Wingman asks Google Flights for exactly that party, so the price you see is what the whole booking costs. Fares are sold in batches, so two seats aren't always twice the price of one, and asking for all of them at once shows what you'd really pay.

Prices and alerts are the total. An alert for anything other than one adult in economy says who it's for.
The booking sites open with the same travellers and cabin, and Kiwi.com's price beside Google's is the total too.
Round trips stay together. Change the travellers on one flight and the flight back follows.

PRG ✈ LIS · 450 € ▼30 €
Prague → Lisbon: the same flight got cheaper (was 480 €).
For 2 adults, 1 child, business class.

Changing the travellers starts the watch over, since prices for a different party don't compare with the old ones. Babies on a lap aren't included yet. It's on every plan, the free one too.

Fresher prices, and a new home

2026-10-16T15:50:00+02:00

Fresher prices

A price is only worth something if it's still there. So the prices you see now come first:

What the app shows is searched again before anything else once it gets old: after half an hour for a flight this week, up to six hours for one months away.
Old side prices stop counting. A price from a separate search, such as a self-transfer's half or a round-trip ticket, no longer counts once it's too old to trust, until it's searched again.
Alerts wait for a fresh price. A new low that rests on an older price is searched again first, and you hear about it once it's confirmed.
Compare sites asks Google again when you open it and its price is more than five minutes old.

A new home

Wingman now lives at wingmanfares.com, with the app at app.wingmanfares.com. The old addresses send you to the new ones, so bookmarks keep working. Emails come from hello@wingmanfares.com, which is also where to write with anything at all. And Wingman is on Instagram as @wingmanfares.

Ten languages

2026-10-15T15:33:00+02:00

Wingman started in English and Czech. As of today it speaks ten languages: German, Slovak, Polish, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch join them.

That covers everything you read: the web app, the iPhone app, the alerts and emails, and this website. Wingman picks your language the first time you visit, and you can change it in the menu whenever you like.

An archive for past trips

Once a trip's dates have passed, it moves to the Archive, where you can still look back at what it found. Nothing searches it any more, so its searches go to the trips still ahead.

Smarter searching, more frequent checks

2026-10-14T22:21:00+02:00

Every check is a live search on Google Flights, and each plan has a number of them a day. This week's work makes each one count for more.

Calm dates wait. A date whose price comes back the same, search after search, is checked less and less often until it moves again. Dates months away wait longer anyway, since their fares move slowly.
Answers are shared. When two watches need the same search within a few minutes, one search serves both.
Flexible months ask the calendar first. Google's price calendar gives every day's lowest fare in one request, so Wingman searches the promising days first and leaves out the ones that can't come close to the best trip it has found.

What that means for you: the trips coming up are checked more often, on the same plan.

A price calendar for flexible trips

On the web, a flexible trip now shows its month as a calendar, each departure day with its cheapest trip, so you can see at a glance which days are worth it. The route sits on a globe beside it, and prices roll to their new value when they change.

Buy or wait, and Explore

2026-10-12T16:23:00+02:00

Buy or wait

Should you book now? Nobody outside the airlines knows tomorrow's price, so Wingman doesn't pretend to. It weighs what it knows, the way a friend who watches fares would:

The usual price. What travellers found for the route on the other days of that month. A price under the usual range is low, one over it is high.
Your watch's own history. The lowest price since you started watching, and which way the last few went.
How far away departure is. Fares tend to climb in the last few weeks, and months out they move slowly.

Every price gets a verdict, buy, wait or fair, with its reasons in a sentence. Advice from real prices, not a promise.

Explore

Not every trip starts with a destination. Pick where you fly from, a month and how long you'd stay, and Explore lists each city's cheapest trip, with its photo. One tap watches the one you like, and from then on Wingman searches it for its exact price.

Also new

Cities have photos now, on Explore's cards and over every watch and trip.
Each account picks the currency its flights are searched in: crowns, euros, dollars or any of 29 currencies, priced by Google Flights in that currency, with no conversion in between.

Where to book, side by side

2026-10-12T11:20:00+02:00

Finding the fare is half the job. The other half is booking it without hunting for it again.

The best site on the card

Each cheapest and fastest flight now carries one button: wherever it costs least. Usually that's Google Flights, which hands you on to the airline. When Kiwi.com sells the very same flights for less, it's Kiwi, and its button opens Kiwi's booking page for exactly those flights, as one booking even for a self-transfer.

Compare sites

Behind it, Compare sites lists every option, cheapest first, each in its own colour:

Google Flights, for the whole journey or each ticket on its own.
Kiwi.com, with its live price for the same flights.
Aviasales, with what other travellers found there.
Trip.com, Skyscanner and Gotogate, which open their results for your route and dates.

On the iPhone they open inside the app.

Wingman doesn't sell tickets. Some of these sites pay it a small commission when you book through them, at no cost to you, and the partner links on this website load only if you allow them.

Wingman for iPhone is on its way

2026-10-11T17:16:00+02:00

The web app works on any phone, but some things only a native app can do. So Wingman for iPhone is on its way to the App Store.

The globe

Every route you watch is an arc on a 3D globe, with its price on it. Open one and its cheapest and fastest flights light up side by side: the cheapest a glowing line, the fastest dashed, each with its price and time.

Boarding passes

The cheapest and the fastest flight each show as a boarding pass: the airports big with their times, each stop where it falls along the way, and under the perforation the date, the airline and flight numbers, the distance and the time difference.

Around the iPhone

Widgets on the Home Screen and Lock Screen, with a button that checks prices right from the widget.
A Live Activity while a check runs, in the Dynamic Island.
A Control Center control, Siri and Spotlight: check prices without opening the app, or find a route by its city.

Alerts that read like a flight tracker's

Alerts got a new shape on the web and the iPhone alike. The title is the route, the price and how far it moved. The body says what happened, then the flight:

PRG ✈ LIS · 116 € ▼7 €
Prague → Lisbon: the same flight got cheaper. Fri 13 Nov, LOT via Warsaw.

The app signs in to the same account as the web, so your watches are already there.

Two tickets can be cheaper than one

2026-10-10T21:23:00+02:00

Google Flights lists connections that one booking covers. Often the cheapest way there isn't one of them. It's two separate low-cost flights through a hub, each booked on its own.

Self-transfers

Turn on self-transfer for a route and Wingman also searches each day in two halves, through the hubs where cheap connections tend to be. It joins flights that land and leave the same airport with at least 90 minutes to change. Overnight connections count when your travel time leaves room for them, and a city with several airports counts as one: land at Stansted, leave from Gatwick, with time to cross London.

Wingman learns where the cheap connections are as it goes, and a new watch tries them in its very first results, not days later. Prague to Cagliari through Milan can cost half the cheapest single ticket.

A self-transfer is two tickets, and Wingman says so every time: book both, and a missed connection is yours to sort out.

Round-trip tickets

It works the other way too. Full-service airlines often sell a round trip for much less than two one-way tickets: Prague to Da Nang and back came to 26 600 Kč as one booking, against 37 500 Kč as two. With round-trip tickets on, a trip is also priced as one booking both ways, and the cheaper of the two counts.

Before any of this went out, the search was measured against an exhaustive search of every hub and against Kiwi's own results, and the gaps were closed.

Alerts on your phone, no app needed

2026-10-10T14:04:00+02:00

A price alert is only useful if it reaches you while the fare is still there. So Wingman now sends real notifications, the kind apps send, straight from the browser: on Android, Windows and macOS, and on iPhone once you add Wingman to your Home Screen.

Where a browser can install Wingman in one tap, there's a button for it. Where it can't, a short guide shows how.
If notifications were blocked, Wingman shows how to allow them again and finishes the setup by itself.
Email works too, for anyone who'd rather read alerts there.

Quiet until it matters

A watcher that buzzes all day gets muted, so Wingman holds back:

A price has to fall by more than 1 %. Currency rounding doesn't count.
If a deal drops out of one search, Wingman waits three checks before it believes the price went up, so a flight that briefly vanishes doesn't ping you twice.
A flexible trip stays silent until every departure day has been searched once, then sends one summary.
If searches stop working, you hear about it once, and once more when they work again.

Meet Wingman

2026-10-09T02:23:00+02:00

Most fare trackers send an email when a price moves a lot, about once a day. Wingman is built for a different case: you know roughly where you're going and when, and you'd like to hear the moment it gets cheaper or faster, without checking yourself.

How it works

You add a route and one or more dates. Wingman searches Google Flights for every one of them, again and again, as often as your plan allows. For each route it keeps two records: the cheapest flight, and the fastest one door to door, layovers included. When either gets better, you hear about it.

What it understands from day one

Round trips. Add the flight back in the same form and get one total for both.
Dates that move. Any date can include 1 to 3 days either side, like Kiwi's date picker.
A target price. Wingman stays quiet until the fare drops under your number.
Flexible months. Leave any day of a month and stay, say, 5 to 8 nights, or take every weekend of a month. Wingman tries every departure day.
Your limits. The stops you accept and the longest trip you'll take.

It spoke Czech from the first day too. Sign-ups open soon, and you can join the waitlist on the home page. The Economy plan stays free for one round trip.