carnet.
a quiet weekly dispatch
for people who travel
with intent
Most travel writing is for someone else.
This one is for you.
A weekly dispatch of flight deals, scored against the life you actually have.
Most flight tools wait for you to start the search. carnet does the opposite — it reads the prices in the background, scores every deal against your budget, your style, and the places you've said you want to go, and sends you the handful worth your morning.
Three things that make it carnet, not Skyscanner.
- 01 It scores, it doesn't dump. Every deal is ranked on five axes — price, destination fit, timing, flight duration, novelty. You see the five worth reading, not the four hundred that match a route.
- 02 It remembers. You tell it once where you want to go. When a deal to Marrakech drops from £140 to £68, it notices — and it also remembers you've been to Lisbon three times already.
- 03 It reads like a publication. No dashboard, no chart, no star rating. A briefing lands in your inbox on Monday morning. You read it over coffee. If a deal calls you, you follow it.
The top five, and a note on the calendar.
Twenty-seven fresh deals in store this morning; five worth your attention below. The May window sits eighteen days away — nothing booked yet. Marrakech at £68 is still a good price, best October to April when it's cooler. Dubrovnik direct for £140 in August — shoulder season, so the old town will breathe.
- Marrakech Wishlist · May window · score 82.5Fri 15 May 13:30 · LON → RAK · 6h 05m · FR Thu 21 May 18:30 · RAK → LON 1 stop · 6 nights£68 return
- Dubrovnik Wishlist · August window · score 80.5Sun 23 Aug 16:30 · LON → DBV · 2h 35m · FR Sun 30 Aug 06:05 · DBV → LON Direct · 7 nights£140 return
- Málaga May window · score 78.8Wed 06 May 06:20 · LON → AGP · 2h 55m · FR Mon 11 May 23:00 · AGP → LON Direct · 5 nights£42 return
- Gdańsk May window · score 77.5Wed 13 May 08:30 · LON → GDN · 2h 05m · FR Mon 18 May 23:35 · GDN → LON Direct · 5 nights£37 return
- Zagreb May window · score 77.2Tue 12 May 06:50 · LON → ZAG · 2h 15m · FR Sun 17 May 11:15 · ZAG → LON Direct · 5 nights£48 return
The May window is eighteen days away and nothing's booked yet. June and August are open too. Tokyo's cherry blossom is ending now; the autumn colours come October to November. No pressure.
carnet is early; the plan is to open it up, slowly.
Today it runs as a personal tool — one reader in London, every morning. The direction from here, in five stages.
- Now Revenue plumbing. Wiring up affiliate click-throughs so a booking earns a commission — the thing that keeps the lights on without a subscription or a paywall.
- Next Cultural signal. Beyond flight prices. Pulling in neighbourhoods, bakeries, and quiet corners from local guides the algorithm buries.
- Later Open to friends, via Telegram. A small conversational bot a few people can read. Multi-user from the ground up — no accounts wall, no ads, no app to install.
- Later A web surface. Same agent, same scoring, same honesty — reachable from a browser.
- Eventually A proper travel planner. Rough intent in, flights and hotels and neighbourhoods out. Personalised to you. Booked by you.
No dates. Built in evenings, not sprint cycles. Write to lab@mindunder.dev to hear when the next milestone lands.
carnet earns a commission when you book through some of the partner links it surfaces — including Aviasales, Hotellook, Kiwi, Booking.com, Trip.com, and Skyscanner, where applicable. It never changes the price you pay. It doesn't change which deals get scored highest: scoring reads only price, fit, and preference. We surface what we'd book ourselves.