Timely Travel

Hey travel gurus!

Traveling can be a big expense both financially and physically on a person and for that reason, one of the most commonly asked questions about travelling is when it is the best time to travel, especially by plane. Depending on your priorities there are two answers. Whether you are more concerned with economic costs or physical efficacy is going to greatly change when you will want to travel and book a trip to the airport.

If your biggest worry is the cost and you aren’t as concerned with when you travel, a great way to book the cheapest flight is to look for dead zones. Dead zones are detected patterns of low activity in flights/flight booking. This makes airports and airline companies reduce the price of tickets to correlate with supply and demand of the market. Basically, certain times throughout the year and even within the week hold low airfare activity and therefore result in decreased ticket prices. The general dead zones within the year include the first two weeks of December, the second part of January, and most spring months (excluding the spring break period in March and April). These times of the year hold the lowest ticket prices and insure a lower cost than traveling at other more popular times of the year.

If you can’t change the time of year that you need to travel in, then pay attention to price decreases within the week. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the cheapest times of the week to book a flight and will therefore help you save a little money while traveling during a busy period, or help get a ridiculously cheap ticket during the unpopular months of traveling.

Obviously, if you are more concerned with having a more pleasurable travel experience, then traveling during the spring or summer will prove to be the most rewarding. With better weather and more business open at later hours, that time period is the best time to travel and have a more pleasurable experience.

I got my information from farecompare.com so if you want to check out more on the subject, click this link (http://www.farecompare.com/travel-advice/cheap-airline-tickets-dead-zones/#/)

Thanks for your read, I really appreciate it!

Taz