Why are my SkyView results not live?
Last updated January 15, 2025
SkyView ( guide ) works by searching popular routes + alert routes once per day and saving them down (caching). So, sometimes, the results you see can be old since they were "last seen" several hours/days ago (see the image in our FAQs ).
The best way to approach this is to first start with a SkyView search. Then, you conduct that same search using a Live Search so that you can verify if the result is still up to date.
More detailed explanation:
It’s extremely complex and difficult to get points data across airlines.
The live tool is in real time, but the cached SkyView tool lets you search up to 60 days at once, search from all top airports in the US to all top airports in Europe, and set alerts. That functionality is impossible when searching manually across 17 airline websites.
Imagine searching 17 airline websites * 50 original airports * 50 destination airports * 60 days. That would be you searching 2.55M times for availability and that’s just searching each route once.
And you can’t even set alerts with individual airline websites, you can have to just come back and search the same routes again. So you would be searching 2.55M times at least every single day, just to match 1 search on the cached SkyView search.