@airtrack_botFree
These bots search flights and train routes from inside Telegram and, for the useful ones, keep watching a route after your first search and alert you when the price drops. They're for comparing options fast, not for issuing the actual ticket.
| # | Bot | Price | Languages | Inline | Groups | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @airtrack_bot | Free | EN | no | no | 75 |
| 2 | @Flightpoints_bot | Freemium · Basic award search and alerts without sign-up, with a cap on the number of searches | EN | no | no | 69 |
| 3 | @choochoobot | Free | EN | no | no | 67 |
| 4 | @metametabot | Free | EN | no | no | 63 |
| 5 | @FlightAlerts_Bot | Free | EN | no | no | 61 |
We searched the same domestic route (Moscow-Sochi) and one international route on both flights and trains, comparing the price shown by the bot against the price on the official carrier or aggregator site for the same date and class. We set a price-drop alert and waited to see if it fired accurately, and checked whether the bot completes the purchase itself or redirects to an official booking page.
Most of these bots are search-and-alert tools, not ticket sellers — they pull prices from aggregator APIs and either show you the cheapest option or redirect you to an airline, a railway operator, or an established booking platform to actually pay. That's normal and not a red flag by itself, but it means the value is in the search and price-tracking, so test that the price shown actually matches what you'd pay at checkout, including baggage and fees the bot might not include.
Never enter card details or passport data directly into a Telegram chat with a bot — a legitimate bot redirects you to a proper checkout page (the airline's, the railway's, or a known booking site) for payment, over HTTPS, not through Telegram's chat interface. If a bot asks you to send payment info as a message, stop and book elsewhere.
The search and comparison itself is free everywhere, since bots make money from booking referral commissions, not subscriptions. What's worth checking for is the price-drop alert feature (some limit you to tracking one or two routes for free) and whether it also nets out fare-difference nuances like different luggage rules. For flexible travel dates, letting a bot's calendar view show a week's worth of prices at once often beats searching one date at a time manually.
Yes, the search itself is free in every bot we checked — they earn through booking referral commissions rather than subscriptions, though price-drop tracking may be limited to one or two routes on the free tier.
Yes, this is a common feature — you set a route and dates once, and the bot checks periodically and messages you if the price falls, though check-frequency and route limits vary between bots.
Most bots only search and compare, then redirect you to the airline's, railway's, or a booking site's own checkout to actually pay — treat any bot asking for card or passport details directly in the chat as a red flag.
