UPDATE: The 2019 Airfare Study has the most current information. The most asked question we get here at CheapAir.com is “When is the best time to buy my airline ticket?” With frequent fluctuations in airfare prices, it’s no wonder that buying a reasonably priced ticket can often feel like trying to hit a moving target.
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You may have noticed that airfares change all the time. Exhausting. To alleviate the pain, we conducted a huge airfare study, and have boiled down the insights for you – to help you get a cheaper airfare!
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When you travel internationally, you want the best value for your money. This invariably leads to the question “when should I buy my international airline ticket to get the best deal?” We previously published a comprehensive study on domestic flights which indicated that 54 days in advance is, on average, the best time to buy. But for international flights, the data (and our advice) is different.
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If you’ve spent any amount of time shopping for flights, you probably know that airfares change a lot. Airlines will tell you that the price fluctuations are based on meticulous real-time calculations to match supply and demand, but to travelers the ups and downs seem random, totally unpredictable, and utterly without rhyme or reason.
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We recently released a study where we told you that, on average, the best time to buy domestic airline tickets is 47 days before your flight. Many customers have asked us, “Does the same rule apply for international flights?”
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Every year at CheapAir we go through a little exercise.
We take a list of the top 15,000 markets where our customers live and like to fly to, and we watch fares between those cities over the course of an entire year.
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For years, we’ve heard it bandied about that Tuesdays are the best day of the week to buy airline tickets, and if you buy on a Tuesday you can consistently save money. This has been repeated so often that many industry pundits regard it as settled law.
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