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How the product is funded.

The board is free to use. Partner commissions support its operation after a reader chooses to leave flight.deals.

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26 July 2026
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flight.deals is funded by affiliate commissions attached to selected outbound links. The commercial relationship begins at the click-out; the fare board and its rankings are built from price observations first.

Outbound booking links — Check fare, Search your dates, hotel links, and the trip-toolkit links for insurance, eSIM, car rental and airport transfers — may be affiliate links. If you book after clicking one, the booking platform may pay us a commission. These links carry rel="sponsored" markup.

Your checkout price

The booking platform funds the commission from its own commercial margin. The final itinerary and binding price are always the ones shown by that platform at checkout.

How rankings are determined

  • Deal selection: fares reach the board through observed price and route history.
  • Ranking: the measured drop below a route’s usual price, and how recently the fare was found, decide its position; a route without enough history shows its fare without a percentage.
  • Editorial content: guides recommend useful approaches, including free options.

Partner reward rates, conversion bonuses and campaign placement are not inputs to the fare score. The full calculation is described on How it works.

Sponsorships

The current model uses affiliate commissions. Any future sponsored placement will carry an explicit label that separates it from measured fare rankings.

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