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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Here’s something most travelers don’t know and it’ll make them angry… Flight search engines don’t want to show you the cheapest fares.  They’re built to earn commissions from airlines.  So, you see the fares that are the best for the airlines. So how do people get those really…

While the public panics over skyrocketing flight prices driven by the Middle East conflict, industry insiders are actually celebrating behind closed doors. A former travel agent recently revealed why this global chaos is secretly the best thing to happen to your travel budget. As airlines rush to enforce…