Can my customer search for the cheapest dates to fly in a month instead of picking one exact date?

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Asked by Naveen Gupta 📅 Aug 30, 2026 4:02 PM

Can my customer search for the cheapest dates to fly in a month instead of picking one exact date?

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Answered by Kavita Menon 📅 Aug 30, 2026 4:08 PM

Yes, but only where the flight supplier behind your portal offers it, so it will not be available on every airline or every route you sell.

A flexible date search works differently from a normal one. Instead of asking for a single day, your portal asks for a spread of days around the date your customer had in mind and shows the lowest fare found on each of them, usually as a small calendar the customer can click through. It suits holiday travellers who can move a day either way, and it will often turn up something better than a fixed date search would have shown them.

There are limits worth knowing before you promise this to anyone. A search across many days takes noticeably longer to come back than a search for one day, because there is far more for the supplier to look up, so your customer will be waiting a little longer at that screen. The fares on the calendar are a guide taken at that moment and can move before the customer chooses a day, so the real price is only settled when the booking is confirmed. Some suppliers do not answer this kind of request at all, and budget airlines in particular often reply only for the exact day you asked about.

Tell us the routes your customers ask about most often and we can check whether your current flight suppliers return flexible dates on them before you add the option to your search form.

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