SlickTrip and Going Complement Each Other… Here’s How

Going is excellent for discovering cheap flights you might not have searched for yet, especially mistake fares and standout deals from your home airport, while SlickTrip is built to watch specific routes and dates and send SMS/text alerts when live prices drop fast enough that timing matters. Used together, Going helps you discover opportunities and SlickTrip helps you act on the exact trips you care about.

What Going is great at

Going, formerly Scott’s Cheap Flights, is a membership-based flight deal service focused on surfacing cheap fares and mistake fares from your chosen home airports. Its main value is curation: Going’s team finds notable deals, verifies them, and sends alerts so travelers do not have to search manually every day.

For many travelers, Going works best when they are flexible about either destination, timing, or both. It is especially appealing if you like the idea of waking up to an email or app alert that says, in effect, “there’s suddenly a great fare to Lisbon, Tokyo, or Denver… want it?

What SlickTrip focuses on instead

SlickTrip is not a curated flight newsletter or inspiration engine. It is a real-time flight and hotel price tracking service that checks prices frequently and sends SMS/text alerts when a tracked trip crosses a target you set or drops suddenly enough to deserve attention.

That makes SlickTrip a better fit for travelers who already know the route, dates, or airport combinations they care about and want aggressive monitoring rather than broad inspiration. If Going says, “Here’s an exciting deal you may want,” SlickTrip says, “That exact trip you care about just got cheaper so look now.”

How Going handles deal alerts

Going’s core model is to send curated alerts for cheap fares, including mistake fares, from airports you choose, with broader access and faster notifications tied to membership tiers. Premium and Elite plans expand coverage to international deals and mistake fares, while the service also offers app-based notifications to help members move quickly when a strong deal appears. 

This works well when you:

• Want surprise deals rather than tracking one exact itinerary.
• Are flexible enough to book around what the market offers.
• Like the idea of a team doing the hunting and sending you the best opportunities.

The tradeoff is that Going is optimized for “show me a great deal” more than “watch this exact route every few minutes.”

How SlickTrip handles price tracking

SlickTrip flips that model. Instead of curating broad deals from a home airport, it focuses on the specific, high-intent routes and dates you actually want to book.

A typical SlickTrip flow looks like this:

1. You choose your route, dates, and any nearby airport combinations you want to track.
2. You set a target fare or ask to be notified about any meaningful drop.
3. SlickTrip checks prices frequently and sends an SMS/text alert when a fare suddenly falls into your range.

This makes SlickTrip especially well-suited to short-lived price dips, flash sales, last-minute international deals, and other moments when an email checked hours later may simply be too slow. It is not about curating the internet’s most interesting airfare; it is about catching the exact pricing moment that matters for your trip. Because SlickTrip is checking live prices so frequently, it can also catch mistake‑fare‑level drops on the specific routes you track, not just general cheap dates from your home airport.”

Where SlickTrip and Going complement each other

These tools can work very well together because they solve different travel-planning problems.

A practical combined workflow looks like this:

1. Use Going for inspiration and high-upside discovery.
   • Watch for mistake fares, rare international sales, and destination ideas from your home airport.
2. Use SlickTrip for the trips you already care about.
   • Once you know you want Paris in October, Orlando next month, or a specific holiday route home, set route-specific alerts in SlickTrip and let the platform watch for sudden drops.
3. Use both for “dream trip” planning.
   • Going may introduce you to destinations you were not actively tracking.
   • SlickTrip can then help you track those same destinations more aggressively with target prices and text alerts once they move from “interesting idea” to “trip I’d actually take.”

In that setup, Going is your discovery engine and SlickTrip is your precision watcher.

When to reach for each tool

Choose Going when:

• You want curated cheap fares and mistake fares from your home airport.
• You are flexible on destination or travel window.
• You prefer editorially selected deals over setting up lots of route-specific alerts.

Choose SlickTrip when:

• You already know the routes or dates you care about.
• You want more aggressive monitoring, with prices checked frequently rather than periodically.
• You prefer SMS/text alerts that can help you react to flash sales, sudden fare drops, or mistake-fare-style pricing before they disappear.

Used together, Going helps travelers find exciting opportunities they may never have searched for on their own, while SlickTrip helps them watch the specific trips that matter most closely enough to act when the market finally breaks in their favor.