Reliable, Free Flight Alert Website allowing multiple route combinations

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Many sites, including Skyscanner, Kayak, Hipmunk or Momondo can watch flights on a specific date for you, often also for several airports at once. But you cannot get a weekly report about arbitrary return flights between two destinations at any date in the future. As Mark already explained, Kayak can however warn you about cheap weekend deals (using β€œupcoming weekends” as the time frame).

Adioso is somewhat more flexible than most. It lets you set up searches for things like return flights between two countries or cities (not airports) at anytime in the future for a trip lasting about two weeks and then set up an alarm. I don't know how reliable it is (the more flexible, the more likely it is to miss something) and you cannot get weekly emails (you have to specify a threshold and get an email whenever a flight cheaper than your threshold becomes available).

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Kayak.com allows you to create price alerts. So let's run through your criteria.

  1. Free - it is, yes. Well, you have to sign up so you're giving them some information.
  2. Sure, it's not just 'ex-NZ specials, but city specific, or multiple. For example, you can have a search:

    [Flights from SYD to CHC on a specific day, one-way)(https://www.kayak.com.au/flights/SYD-CHC/2015-03-27)

    or something more complex:

    Flights from SYD, or either Melbourne airport, to either Christchurch or Auckland, return, business class, on this specific date, but I'm flexible by +/-3 days on the return

  3. Well it checks most that I care about. I know RyanAir in Europe isn't on it, but it covers most you'd want to fly with.

  4. Weekly? You can choose daily or weekly (a tutorial on creating one has a screenshot of this if you want evidence

    Kayak's sample page showing what your alerts look like, aside from the emails

  5. Well, as shown above you can specify return or one-way flights. And it doesn't even have to be to the same place - you can do a search from/to multiple airports, eg, I used to search BNE,SYD,MEL to YVR,PDX,SEA when I was looking for cheap flights last year from Australia to the Pacific North West.

Are you asking too much? Nope. It's a great tool and probably underused by most, myself included. This has reminded me I should set up more on it.

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