Why I Built This
You know that feeling when you book a flight, and then a week later you see the same flight for $100 less? Yeah. That kept happening to me.
I tried the popular flight alert apps. They promised to notify me when prices dropped. Spoiler: they mostly didn't work. Alerts came late or not at all. The ones that did work only checked prices once or twice a day, so they'd miss the random drops that happen in between.
So I built Trip Manta. It's pretty simple - it checks flight prices every hour and emails you when they drop. Looking at the data, prices often drop 20-30% in the last month before departure. Figured other people might find this useful too.
That's basically it. Nothing fancy, just a thing that actually does what it says.
Why is it called Trip Manta?
I like scuba diving and manta rays are cool.