Let this new service send you the internet's best fares for $8/month

Look at your internet now, Al Gore!

Thanks to the old information superhighway, the actionable options at our disposal day to day can be overwhelming – and for purposes of this site, that's never more true than when we're booking travel. Where, really, are the best deals on airfare to be found?

The new Google Flights is good, but in truth there is no single answer. With Amazing Airfare, Zachary Cohn is hoping to change that. Amazing Airfare presents itself as something of an enlightened middle man in the airfare booking process, relaying only the best flight deals found internet-wide by email and text the moment they're picked up. By its own constitution, only the "craziest legal, valid fares" make the cut, so users are alerted only to deals that are more than 50% discounted (average savings of $500 per ticket). As the site explains:

There’re lots of flight deal sites out there, but here’s the thing: These deals come and go so fast, if you don’t check constantly you will miss them.

What if the ONE day you don’t check, you miss out the trip of a lifetime?

It makes sense, right? Dive into it a little further, with help from good-seeming dude Cohn himself on this Product Hunt forum, and there's one major catch: It costs $7.99 a month. That's the "same price as Netflix." Great.

In the world of airfare deal finding, the giants regularly on top of the best fares – airfarewatchdog, The Flight Deal, etc. – charge you no Netflix money for their findings via web, Twitter and newsletter. You must check them yourself, God forbid (or set up alerts), but they're free. Custom-set Kayak Price Alerts are also free, as are alerts from the airlines themselves, like Alaska Airlines' cooly named Jet Text Mobile Club. For an unproven entity still tinkering with its product, $8/month is a steep hike up from zero.

Furthermore, the demanding filter Amazing Airfare applies spits out only "2 or 3 alerts a month," without any consideration for where you're based. That you might live in Seattle and have a New York-departing flight as part of your monthly return is not just possible; it's literally an example brought on the homepage. Sure, flexibility is key in finding cheap airfare, but this really loosens the guarantee that you'll get your money's worth in a given month (also unclear is whether mistake fares like this one would be part of the deal).

Apparently, "East of the Mississippi" and "West of Mississippi" filters are on the horizon. More testimonials, and more success stories, could be, too. If you're not preposterously wealthy, we say save your money until there's a better sample – but be sure to keep an eye on Amazing Airfare.