A useful alert understands which flight you would take.
Apricot watches the saved route and dates, then checks a meaningful price drop against fresh flights shaped by your preferences.
Tell Apricot about your tripStart with the decision, not the filter
A useful alert is a continuation of a decision. It remembers the route, dates and preferences that made the original shortlist relevant.
Apricot creates alerts from completed searches and checks meaningful price drops against fresh flights before notifying.
This separates discovery from interruption. A traveler first describes what counts as a workable flight; Apricot then watches for a price drop worth reconsidering.
The useful question is not whether the route became cheaper in the abstract. It is whether the new best match makes the saved trip meaningfully better value.
What changes the answer
Search before watching
The saved search supplies the route, dates, brief and reference price.
Preserve the trip
Profile defaults and request preferences remain available when current flights are checked.
Use meaningful thresholds
Small or stale movements do not automatically become notifications.
Check current flights
A meaningful price signal is compared with fresh options before it is sent.
How Apricot handles this request
Apricot watches route-and-date prices, preserving direct or checked-baggage context when those preferences shape the saved search.
It then performs a fresh search and scores the current candidates for the alert, reconnecting the price signal to the full trip.
The route, dates, original brief and travel preferences stay together inside the alert so the next comparison begins with the same decision.
A better brief in four checks
- Create the alert from a completed search.
- Check the route and concrete dates.
- Put important preferences in the original brief.
- Review the current seller offer before booking.
The output should make the compromise visible
Apricot returns three options with a clear Why, route context, current prices and seller choices. One can protect the strongest fit, another can show a sensible saving, and a third can make a time or comfort improvement explicit. The goal is not more results. It is a decision you can inspect.
Start with this request