How Wingit Works · Updated June 2026
Save a Deal Once. Let Wingit Watch the Price for You.
Wingit's wishlist re-checks every saved route 3 times a day and pushes an alert the moment the price drops 5% further — so you stop refreshing fare pages yourself.
You found a flight deal you like, but you're not ready to book — maybe you're waiting on leave approval, or comparing two destinations. Instead of bookmarking the page and checking back manually, save it to your Wingit wishlist. Wingit keeps watching the route for you and tells you if it gets even cheaper.
What Is the Wingit Wishlist?
The wishlist is a list of deal cards you've chosen to keep an eye on. Any subscriber can save a deal — there's no separate tier or paywall for it, in keeping with Wingit's free-to-all model.
Saving a deal does two things: it keeps a copy of the deal (route, dates, cabin class, and the price at the time you saved it) in your Wishlist tab, and it tells Wingit's backend to keep checking that exact route — same origin, same destination, same cabin class — on every detection run going forward.
What gets saved
Origin, destination, cabin class, and the price you saved at (saved_price_inr). This is your baseline for comparison.
What gets updated
If the route reappears in a scan, Wingit updates the current price and the timestamp it was last seen — automatically, with no action from you.
What triggers an alert
A push notification fires only when the new price is 5% or more below the price you originally saved — not on every minor fluctuation.
How to Save a Deal in 3 Steps
The wishlist lives in the Wingit mobile app. Browse current deals on the web first if you want to see what's live, then save the ones you're tracking from the app.
Saving a Deal to Your Wishlist
Find a deal you want to track
Open a deal card in the Wingit app for a route, date, and cabin class you're interested in. You don't need to be ready to book — this step is just about flagging interest.
Tap the bookmark icon on the deal card
Every deal card has a bookmark icon. Tapping it saves the deal — origin, destination, cabin class, and current price — to your Wishlist tab. The icon fills in to confirm it's saved.
Check your Wishlist tab anytime
Open the Wishlist tab to see every route you're tracking, the price when you saved it, the current price, and the percentage change between the two. Remove a route anytime by tapping the bookmark again.
What Happens Behind the Scenes
Once a route is on your wishlist, it's no longer something you have to remember to check. Wingit's backend handles it on every detection cycle — the same 3-times-daily cron run that finds new deals in the first place.
What the Backend Does on Every Scan
Matches your saved route
When the scan returns a fare for the same origin, destination, and cabin class as a wishlisted item, Wingit treats it as a fresh data point for that wishlist entry.
Updates the current price and timestamp
The wishlist item's current price and 'last seen' timestamp are updated immediately — this happens regardless of whether the price moved.
Checks the 5% threshold
If the new price is at least 5% below the price you originally saved at, Wingit sends a push notification to your phone telling you the route dropped further and by how much.
Expires the item if the route disappears
If a wishlisted route stops appearing in scans entirely — the cached fare data no longer has it — the item is marked expired after 48 hours of not being seen.
✓ Why 5%, not any drop at all
A wishlist item that goes quiet for 48 hours — meaning the route hasn't shown up in any of roughly six scans across two days — gets marked expired in your Wishlist tab. That usually means the cached fare data for that route has moved on, not that the flight stopped existing; search the route fresh if you still want it.
Wishlisting vs. Checking Fares Yourself
Manually checking fares
- ·You have to remember to go back and check — easy to forget for a week and miss the window entirely
- ·Every check means re-searching the route on an OTA or Google Flights and comparing against what you remember paying
- ·No threshold — you're scanning prices yourself trying to judge if a change is 'enough' to matter
- ·If you check at the wrong time of day, you might miss a fare that came and went between visits
Wishlisting on Wingit
- ✓The route is checked automatically 3 times a day, on the same schedule Wingit uses to find every deal
- ✓Your saved price is stored as a fixed baseline — no relying on memory for what you saw last week
- ✓A push notification only fires past a meaningful 5% further drop, so you're not parsing noise yourself
- ✓If the route goes cold, you're told (via the 48-hour expiry) instead of wondering if you should keep checking
This is also where Wingit's wishlist differs from generic fare trackers like Google Flights' price tracking or Skyscanner's price alerts. Those tools watch a search you define — any date, any price movement — and notify you on every change, which means you get pinged for 2% wobbles as often as for genuine drops. Wingit's wishlist only ever starts from a deal that already cleared the 15%+ below-benchmark bar, and only alerts again once it clears a second, smaller bar on top of that.
Mistakes People Make Tracking Prices Manually
What Goes Wrong Without a Wishlist
Relying on memory for the price you saw
A week after seeing a deal, most people misremember the exact number — was it Rs. 32,000 or Rs. 34,000? Without a saved baseline, you can't tell if a new price is actually better.
Checking at irregular intervals
Checking once a day, then forgetting for four days, then checking twice in one afternoon, means you have no consistent read on how a fare is trending. Wingit's 3x-daily cadence is the same regardless of what you do.
Treating every price change as significant
A fare that moves from Rs. 30,000 to Rs. 29,400 hasn't really dropped in any way that matters — that is normal noise. Without a defined threshold, it is easy to second-guess whether to book.
Giving up on a route that goes quiet
If a route stops showing up in your manual searches, it is unclear whether it is gone for good or just temporarily uncached. Wingit's 48-hour expiry rule gives you a clear answer instead of an indefinite maybe.
Frequently Asked Questions
Open a deal card in the Wingit mobile app and tap the bookmark icon. This saves the route, cabin class, and current price to your Wishlist tab. You can browse current deals on the web first, then save the ones you want to track from the app.
On every detection run — three times a day, the same schedule Wingit uses to scan for all new deals. If your wishlisted route reappears in that scan, the price and last-seen timestamp on your wishlist item are updated automatically.
The new price needs to be at least 5% below the price you originally saved at. This threshold exists to filter out routine 1–3% price noise so you only get notified about a meaningful additional saving.
If a route isn't seen in any scan for 48 hours, the wishlist item is marked expired. This usually means the cached fare data for that route has moved on. You can remove the expired item and search the route fresh if you're still interested.
Yes. Every feature on Wingit, including the wishlist, is free to every authenticated user. There are no tiers or paywalls — Wingit earns revenue only through affiliate commission when you book via an Aviasales link.
The wishlist saves deal cards you've already found — it's built around tracking a specific fare you've seen, not setting up a blind alert for a route with no deal yet. Browse current deals to find one worth saving.
Never miss a deal
Found a deal worth watching?
Save it to your wishlist in the Wingit app and let the next three scans do the work. You'll know the moment it gets cheaper.
Updated June 2026.
Related: How Wingit Finds Flight Deals · How to Read a Flight Deal
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