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Guides 7 min read

Snowbirds: watching a long stay without thinking about it

Leave in January, return in April. Three months between outbound and return — and a return the airlines may not have put on sale yet. Here is how to handle it.

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Sergio Nokam

September 7, 2026

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Guides 6 min read

Tracking a flight when your dates cannot move

"Be flexible" is useless when there is a wedding or a school term. Here are the six levers left when the date itself is locked.

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Sergio Nokam

August 31, 2026

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Technology 6 min read

Do flight prices change based on your device?

You check a flight twice and it has gone up. Rumour blames your cookies. The reality is more interesting — and incognito mode will not save you.

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Sergio Nokam

August 24, 2026

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Guides 7 min read

Mistake fares: what they are, why they happen, what to do

Montreal to Tokyo for $340 is not a promotion, it is an industrial accident — and you have hours to decide. How they happen, how to play.

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Sergio Nokam

August 17, 2026

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Guides 6 min read

Why two seats side by side do not cost the same

In 14A and 14B, two passengers paid $312 and $780. Same plane, same meal, same arrival time. Here is what the second one actually bought — and it was not a seat.

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Sergio Nokam

August 10, 2026

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Technology 7 min read

How airlines set their prices

A plane is not a shelf of identical products. It is about twenty small markets sold one after another — and that explains why fares jump instead of gliding.

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Sergio Nokam

August 3, 2026

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Tips 6 min read

The Tuesday myth: what the data actually says

Friday says Expedia, Monday says Upgraded Points, 1.9% says Google. The studies contradict each other — the question is the wrong one.

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Sergio Nokam

July 27, 2026

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Guides 7 min read

Alternatives to Going for Canadian travellers

Going's free tier only covers US domestic flights. Here are the options that genuinely help when you fly out of Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver.

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Sergio Nokam

July 20, 2026

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Guides 8 min read

How a flight alert app works

Five steps sit between a price moving and an email reaching you. Understanding them is enough to tell a useful tool from a notification machine.

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Sergio Nokam

July 15, 2026

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Tips 6 min read

Going in 2026: is the subscription worth it?

Going has over a million subscribers. What its three tiers really cover, what they do not, and who the subscription pays off for.

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Sergio Nokam

July 13, 2026

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Tips 8 min read

Going vs Hopper vs Kestrelia: which one fits you?

These three tools answer different questions. Here is which one each handles, what each refuses to do — us included — and how to decide.

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Sergio Nokam

July 10, 2026

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Tips 6 min read

Google Flights alerts: 3 limits worth knowing

Free, reliable, enough for most travellers. The three things Google Flights alerts do not do — and how to tell whether it affects you.

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Sergio Nokam

July 6, 2026

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Guides 5 min read

How to set up a flight alert in 4 steps

A badly set alert either drowns you or never fires. The four settings that decide everything, and the mistake almost everyone makes first.

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Sergio Nokam

July 6, 2026

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Technology 8 min read

Buy now or wait on your flight?

Nobody predicts fares reliably. But three checkable benchmarks are enough to decide — and one asymmetry almost everyone ignores tips the balance.

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Sergio Nokam

July 5, 2026

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