If you optimise your Miles and More status, you already optimise your fares. Same instinct, different spreadsheet. You check three or four airline sites before booking anything, you know roughly when prices on your usual routes tend to drop, and you’ve definitely refreshed a fare page more times in one week than you’d like to admit.

I was doing exactly that when I built MileHunter, and it bothered me that tracking status was solved but tracking the fares that get you there wasn’t. So I built FareHunter.

What FareHunter Does

FareHunter tracks flight prices across airlines and booking classes so the manual checking stops being your job:

  • Multi-airline tracking: monitor fares across airlines and booking classes for the same route, in one view instead of five tabs
  • Price alerts: set a target price and get notified when a fare drops to it — no more daily checking out of habit
  • Booking class insight: see which booking classes are available on a route and how they map to your frequent flyer programme, so you know the earning rate before you book, not after
  • Booking window analysis: understand when fares on your routes have historically dropped, so you time the purchase instead of guessing

Why Booking Class Matters as Much as Price

This is the part that connects directly back to status tracking. A cheap fare in the wrong booking class can earn you a fraction of the Points a slightly more expensive one would. If you’re the kind of flyer who checks MileHunter to see how close you are to Senator or HON Circle, the booking class on your next ticket isn’t a footnote, it’s half the decision. FareHunter surfaces that alongside the price, so cost-per-mile is something you can actually see instead of something you calculate in your head after the fact.

Where It Stands Today

Core tracking and price alerts are live now at farehunter.ch. Booking window analysis is still early, and I’m actively adding routes and refining the alerting as real usage comes in.

I’m building this the same way I built MileHunter: in the open, based on what the people actually using it ask for. If a route isn’t tracked yet or an alert doesn’t fire the way you’d expect, that’s exactly the kind of thing I want to hear about.

Try It

FareHunter is live at farehunter.ch. If you’re already tracking your status with MileHunter, this is the other half of the same habit.

Feedback, bug reports, or a route you want tracked — reach me at hello@salnova.ch or through scloud.work.

Florian