The half-price fares people actually catch are ordinary published fares that drop for a few hours. The people who get them are told, not searching. By Grace Whitlock, a travel journalist who covers airfares and how people book them. Ray Delgado spent a Sunday night trying flight codes…
Read More The best fares for Christmas and winter trips don’t wait for a sale or a deadline. They’re already showing up, on ordinary days, with no announcement. By Victoria Hayes, who worked as a travel agent for 11 years. Do you think holiday fares only go up from here?…
Read More A travel-agency data analyst counted. On 1,279 routes the front cabin had a deal almost every day. Nobody was looking on the right one. By Victoria, TopTravel News Adrian Calloway has read airline fare feeds for a living for fifteen years. Most people think a business-class deal is…
Read More They are rarer than the forums say and realer than the sceptics think. The reason you have never seen one is timing, not luck. By Elliot Marsh, travel journalist covering airline pricing for 8 years The famous specimen On 2 September a round trip from Chicago to London…
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Fourteen months of raw fare data. The sale was not the story. What sat under it was worth far more.By Elliot Marsh, TopTravel News Last autumn I wrote what every travel writer writes in October. Hold off. The sale is coming. Book on Black Friday. Then a reader…
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I track fares for a living. Last month I pointed the tools at my own inbox. Here’s the number, the 5-minute audit that finds yours – and how I stopped mine from growing. By a data scientist Ingrid Solveig Halvorsen According to industry reporting this spring, US airfares…
Read MoreWe recently spoke with Doug M. (name changed), a runner from Los Angeles who spent 10 nights waking up at 3AM to hunt for a business class fare to Tokyo. I hear people talk about crazy-good flight deals all the time. “We flew business to Singapore for $600!”…
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Every autumn, the same headlines return: book your holiday flights now, before prices climb. I spent nine years on the other side of those headlines. Those weeks were the best of our year. By Viktor Hansen, former airline pricing manager Let me be precise about “best.” Not because…
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Most of the best sale fares this November will be gone before the sales are even announced. I’ve spent five years logging them. By Marta Keller, data scientist, fare-tracking systems Every November and December, I log airline sale fares the way other people log birdwatching sightings. The positive…
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Hi, I’m Ethan, and I have an embarrassing amount of opinions about airline pricing. My friends stopped finding that charming around year two, though they still text me screenshots asking, “Is this actually a good price or should I keep looking?” It started a few years ago while…
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