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Why the price sometimes differs when you click through

You find a flight for €89, click "book", and the airline says €104. Nobody lied to you - you just crossed from one kind of price to another. Knowing the difference makes you a sharper shopper on every flight site, not just this one.

Two kinds of prices power every flight site

Live quotes come from asking the airline's inventory, right now, for your exact itinerary. They're accurate for minutes and expensive to produce - which is why booking sites make you wait a few seconds and sometimes "re-price" at checkout.

Cached fares are prices that were recently observed - by other travellers' searches, or periodic sweeps - and stored. They're instant to display and cheap to serve at scale, which is why exploration tools (price calendars, "everywhere" maps, deal alerts, and WRVR's whole-month searches) are built on them. The trade-off is age: a cached fare is a photograph of a moving object.

Every major flight-search product mixes the two: caches for browsing breadth, a live check at the end. The difference between products is mostly where they draw that line and how honestly they label it.

Why the number moves

How WRVR handles it

WRVR is an exploration tool, and it's explicit about the pipeline:

Shopping well with indicative prices

The honest summary

No tool can show you guaranteed prices for a thousand date combinations at once - the airlines don't sell data that way. What a good exploration tool can do is be fast, broad, and truthful about freshness, then hand you to a live check before money moves. That's the contract here, stated plainly.

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