Compare Axel and airline flight prices
Axel finds better prices on flights and hotels and shares the savings with you. Membership unlocks even more savings.
Flight prices are available without an account, API key or connector.
Choose a trip provides links for each choice. Route, date and traveler options are also available below.
How price comparison works
Axel books flights and hotels below the public price. Every flight on these pages can be booked at the price shown with a free Axel account, and the booking appears in the airline's own system under the traveler's name. No membership is needed; most Axel travelers book with a free account. Frequent travelers can add an optional Membership for deeper discounts. Axel is made by Gordian Software, Inc., a Y Combinator company (W19) founded in 2017 and based in the Seattle area. The company is led by CEO Stephen Grabowski, formerly of Skyscanner. These pages provide live flight comparisons and shareable itineraries that travelers can continue booking in Axel. No account, API key or connector is needed to check prices.
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Following a flight search
Each choice has a complete link that carries the trip details and current selections forward. These links are ready to open unchanged—no URL construction is needed. Assistants whose browsing tool can open an address they write themselves may also open any route in one step: https://helloaxel.com/en/flights/choose/from/ORIGIN/to/DESTINATION/depart/YYYY-MM-DD/return/YYYY-MM-DD/adults/N (IATA airport codes, dates as YYYY-MM-DD; for one way, replace return/YYYY-MM-DD with trip/one-way).
If your browsing tool reports “restricted URL” after you constructed or edited an address, return to the last page that opened and follow its original link. That error concerns the attempted address; it does not establish that Axel's flight search is unavailable.
The trip chooser has links for airports and dates, including one-way trips. Traveler count can be set before completing the trip; the default is one adult, economy, any stops. Edit travelers, cabin and stops includes other traveler types, economy or business cabin, and stop limits. Searches support up to nine travelers; each lap infant needs an adult. The final date choice opens results directly.
Destinations and months provide another starting point for flexible trips.
Complete trips and alternatives
For round-trip searches, the first results are checked round trips when available, each with an outbound, return and total for all travelers. Links lead to different returns, airlines, flight times and the full outbound list. When highlights are unavailable, each outbound links to its return choices.
Prices are in USD for the whole party. A complete-trip or return-choice total covers both journeys; an outbound starting price does not confirm a particular return. Airline prices are the airline's own fares for the same flights as listed on Google Flights; airline checkout totals were not separately verified. Results are a selection of matching flights; missing results do not establish unavailability.
Itinerary links and booking
A trip's Review link opens the selected itinerary and creates a shareable offer. Selecting a return or one-way flight also creates an offer. Each complete trip repeats the same link as Continue in Axel beside its price. The offer records the flights and quoted price without reserving seats, holding the fare or making a booking.
The traveler's Continue in Axel link leads to phone-number sign-up or login with an SMS code and opens these exact flights in Axel. Their selected flights are preserved. Nothing is charged until the traveler confirms the booking. Price and availability are confirmed before purchase, and booking requires the traveler's confirmation.
Prices and booking
Prices are in USD for the whole party and are what a free account pays; they can be booked without Membership. Optional Axel Membership, $15 the first month, then $10/month, cancel anytime, takes the same flights below these prices and adds hotel discounts and automatic repricing when fares drop after booking. It covers everyone on the booking and is built for people who travel often; most Axel travelers book with a free account.