rewrite this title This Service Gets You Flight Credits When Prices Drop – NerdWallet

Seeing the price of a flight drop after you book can be a real bummer. But a new tool can help you automatically earn an airline credit towards future travel if the cash price of your reservation drops.

On April 29, 2026, the travel platform Gondola launched its new Flight Auto Save feature. You don’t actually book flights through Gondola. Instead, you link your refundable reservation, and it tracks flight prices after your reservation is made. If the price drops, Gondola automatically rebooks your flight and the airline issues you a flight credit.

The feature is free for all Gondola users and supports all cabin types except basic economy on United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Alaska Airlines. You can also set up fare monitoring on nine additional airlines and Gondola will notify you when prices drop, but you’ll need to manually rebook those flights to lock in savings.

Gondola’s Flight Auto Save feature will automatically track the price of your flights on American, United, Delta and Alaska. Rebooking only applies to non-basic economy fares that were booked with cash — not points or miles. Mixed cabin itineraries are also not supported.

If the price of your fare drops, Gondola will automatically rebook your ticket and the airline will issue a flight credit directly to your airline loyalty account.

According to Gondola co-founder Skyler Erickson, there’s never any risk to your reservation, and you’ll always keep the exact same seat, confirmation number and reservation add-ons as your original booking.

Gondola can also help you track price drops for nine additional airlines:

If you’re traveling on one of these airlines, you need to connect your reservation to Gondola and the platform will email you if there’s a price drop, but you’ll have to rebook the flight yourself.

If you’re worried about data privacy, the manual process is the best route. This is how I use Gondola to track hotel reservations, and from my experience, it can take up to 24 hours for reservations to show up and be monitored.

To enable the full functionality of Auto Save and receive automatic repricing, you’ll need to enable Auto Save from the “Trips” tab of your Gondola account and provide Gondola with a credit card number. Even though you will not receive a cash refund for flight rebookings, Gondola keeps the credit card number on file for automatic rebookings for hotel stays. You only need to provide a card number once.

If you don’t want to share a credit card, Gondola will automatically email you every time the price drops, and you’ll be in charge of rebooking with the airline.

With the cost of travel increasing, it’s nice to know there’s a tool that can help me save money in the background after I book a flight. I’ve previously used Gondola’s Hotel Auto Save feature to track price drops on hotel bookings made with both points and cash and I’m excited to see a similar feature added for flights. I’ll be even more excited if and when Gondola adds the ability to track and reprice award flights.

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Craig Joseph is a NerdWallet credit cards and travel rewards expert. He has degrees in geology from West Virginia University and oceanography from Oregon State University and has published in academic journals, newspapers and blogs. Craig is passionate about personal finance and wants to enhance the financial literacy of everyone he meets. He’ll probably also try to convince you why rocks are cool.