When do feel is the best for holiday travel? Next trip might be over Easter.
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Iāve been using the Google flight search alerts. Will tell you if price is high or good for your travel. Also predicts when might go up or down. Worth looking at, I saved some money this year following that.
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Peak holiday travel, domestic anyway, is usually at is best price a little earlier- around 4 to 5 months out.
I love using this. Itās the easiest way to see all the available flights. And I find that they are accurate with the high low.
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Hmm, I use Google Flights daily but Iāve missed this feature, where is it?
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Alright Iām trying to find it. When I search a random flight it tells me the price is typical and itās on a range on what that flight could go for.
When I click on it, graph pops up to
Show last 60 days data for prices on the flight.
When I booked flights in January, I remember seeing something that said āflight will increase around January 10ā. Or something like that.
When I select my round trip flightsā it give me the option to track prices. Iām wondering if that wording was in an email I got.
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Let us know if you see something like this again, because it would be awesome!
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It was great because I knew when to just buy the ticket! Iāll keep looking!
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Ahh Okay I got it.
I also was using the app hopper! Itās very detailed on dates when to buy or if you should wait when searching flights.
When you search flights thereās a price prediction section. For example it says for a random flight I put in ā price will vary for the next 4 months, getting as low as 141ā. āPrices will begin to rise after October 17ā
I was using this for a last minute trip I was buying (about two months out) so the price was high. I only ended up waiting a week but my flight price did fall to a more acceptable for me price.
I never bought through that app, I always buy through the airline but it was a neat feature to help track possible changes.
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Yes exactly! I thought it was a neat feature!
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Thanks for tip! Got the app, I like it.
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I remember this too I just cant remember details surrounding this. Maybe they donāt do this anymore.
Edit: I see you used hopper. But I think I used to use ita flight matrix software (by Google) and it would show this data. I donāt think it does anymore.
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Great!
Curious how it works for everyone elseā I donāt know much about itā was just desperate to not pay $$$ on that flight I was booking!
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Iāve had Hopper for several years. They send a lot of extra notifications (sign up for a chance to win hopper bucks! Other thingsā¦ya know, freemium model) but their price tool is handy.
On Google Flights, you definitely can track the price of a specific flight (pick a departure/arrival) and specific flights. Once selected, there should be a button in the upper area that says ātrack price.ā Then youāll get emails every now and again or when the price significantly moves. Itās pretty great.
The points guy had an article recently on how to utilize google flights that has a long tutorial article.
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I use Kayak sometimes for the same purpose.
It just stinks that they donāt include budget airlines like SW or JB. Does Hopper?
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My go to tool also. I just wish we could filter out specific airlines (permanently), especially the budget airlines since their prices arenāt real (need to bring a carry on, more $$$, want to actually sit with someone, more $$$). I just want to see the airlines that I am interested in.
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Oh funny. For me, I donāt want the budget airlines (at least not Spirit, Jet Blue, Frontier, etcā¦). The ones who lure you in with low prices and then anything you actually want costs more.
It would be nice to have SW included though.
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I donāt know if Iāve seen any that actually includes Southwest WITH pricingā¦
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