Airlines are moving their pricing to AI that works out what a route will bear, but it can’t hide a cheap fare it’s selling, and that short, public window is what travelers catch. By Ingrid, a travel-agency data analyst who tracks how airfares move. Dana Reyes had been…

The business and first class fares for Thanksgiving to New Year are being flagged now, weeks ahead and on random days. Waiting for a last-minute drop is a bet on one late chance. By Victoria, who spent 16 years as a data analyst at a travel agency. Jill…

A former travel agency data analyst on how his parents are flying to see the grandkids this Christmas in first class, for less than half the usual fare. By Victoria, TopTravel News This Christmas, Dennis Hale’s parents are flying from Miami to Fairbanks to see the grandkids. In…

The sale-season ritual feels smart. The fare data says the money was never on the sale day. By Grace Whitlock, a travel journalist who has covered airline pricing for 12 years On 30 July, a New York to Rome round trip for November showed up at $195. That…

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…

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?…

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…