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When to buy airline tickets: Getting the cheapest flights
- calbear81 16y agoDon't forget the Farecast technology at Bing Travel which predicts whether you should buy or wait for your airline ticket which has a fairly high accuracy rate.
- eljaco 16y agoThe articles don't seem to give a specific answer (aside from a time and day of the week,) but sounds like the consensus is 3 p.m. EST on Tuesday, your best bet being 8 weeks before traveling. From personal experience, once you hit the 3 week mark, you're pretty much SOL until the last few days, since most seats have been sold at that point. If there are still plenty of seats (orbitz sometimes shows you the seating chart,) you'll have better results than on fuller flights.
- corin_ 16y agoActually it did give a pretty specific answer, which was indeed 3pm EST on Tuesday 8 weeks before.
- ojbyrne 16y agoAdmittedly anecdontal, but I've always found 4 weeks before to be the optimal point.
- blacksmythe 16y agoExcept for holiday travel, where the rule seems to be the earlier, the better.
- knowledgesale 16y agoOn a related note, is there a sensible implementation for cheap flights hunting with flexible dates? Guys from Hipmunk have been promising it for about a year by now. And yet I still find myself forced to try different dates manually.
- rdouble 16y agoI've been using http://adioso.com http://adioso.com
- joshwa 16y agohttp://matrix.itasoftware.com/ http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ has a great feature (among MANY others) that will show you a calendar of a month's worth of fares.
- mshafrir 16y agoThey also have a fairly powerful route language - http://matrix1.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch/help/advanced-topics http://matrix1.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch/help/advanced-to...