09/02/2022
When to call Clarksburg Travel to book your airline tickets? This is taken from a national article. Breaking the booking myths!
While this information may apply to big cities, it does not really work in our area. Right now, people are finding low fares sold out 6 months in advance. What it does indeed prove is that booking on certain days is just not a real necessity.
There are many ways to save money on flights.
But booking airfare on a certain day of the week isn't one of them, according to data from Google Flights.
Booking mid-week — and especially Tuesdays around midnight — is often cited as the best time to purchase flights. But in the past five years, U.S. airfares purchased on Tuesdays, Wednesday or Thursdays have been only 1.9% cheaper on average than airfares purchased during the weekend, according to Google Flights.
While the day of the week travelers book may not matter much, the day they fly does, according to Google Flights' research, which examined five years of historical flight data from Aug. 1, 2017 to Aug. 1, 2022.
"On average, flights that depart on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday have been 12% cheaper than weekend departures," wrote Byers. "If you exclude international destinations, the potential savings jump even higher to 20%."