How we show fares

Where the numbers come from

Once a week an automated job asks the Travelpayouts Data API for the lowest fares that Aviasales searches recently found on each route in our guides. The answer is a cache of past search results, not live availability.

What a fare means

• Basis: 1 adult, economy, one way unless the page says return, for one specific departure date.
• Currency: US dollars, the currency the data is recorded in. We don’t convert to rand, naira or other currencies, because we have no sourced, dated exchange rate to do it honestly. Aviasales shows prices in the currency of your location or account settings.
• Not included: checked baggage is often extra, and payment or booking fees may apply. Baggage is shown as unknown unless the data says otherwise.
• Observed on: the date the fare was found. A found fare is not a guaranteed seat.

How long a fare is shown

A fare is shown as current for 7 days after it was observed, unless the provider says it expires sooner. After that a page may show it for up to 30 days as a dated, historical observation, and then not at all. Fares for departure dates that have passed are never shown. Rebuilding the site does not make an old fare look new.

When there is no fare

“No recent fares” means the feed found nothing for that route recently. “Temporarily unavailable” means our data request failed. Neither means there are no flights — check current availability for your dates.

Monthly and weekly charts

Monthly bars show the lowest one-way fare found for departures in each month. Months without an observation are left empty, not filled in. Weekly history shows one observation per week; we don’t draw lines through missing weeks.

Rankings

“Fares from” and “Fares to” pages rank only current observations of the same kind, and show each fare’s observation date, departure date and number of stops. Routes without a current observation are listed separately, without a price.