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Google Flights team analyzed five years’ worth of historical airfare data
- hnburnsy 4y ago* - Cheapest days to fly - Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday have been 12% cheaper * - Best day of the week to book your plane tickets - Any, only a 1.9% cheaper Tuesday - Thursday * - The ideal number of days before departure to book a flight - Domestic 21-60, average 44. Thanksgiving-52, Christmas-22,Spring Break-38,Summer-21,US to Europe-129,US to Mexico or Caribbean-59.
- ggm 4y agoIt feels likely the longterm future of flight pricing variances will be adversarial programming to counter the Google selection bias effects. We may 'win' in the downspikes and 'lose' significantly if we cannot avoid the upspikes. I used Google flights as a hedge for some work and pleasure travel, it helped provide some certainty to booking. Google needs to be able to show confirmed prices, because a lot of the lows are highly ephemeral fares. Google should work with FF points schemes to also allow prebook with points!