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Originally Posted by NickMPK
Booking a domestic flight for June or July right now is crazy. Generally speaking, airline tickets are cheapest if you book them three weeks before the flight (obviously with a huge amount of variance).
My advice to people looking for the cheapest flight is to be flexible. Don’t be tied to one airline (if possible). Allow yourself to fly on different days or different times of day. Waiting to 3 weeks out is probably better than booking far ahead, but you always run the risk of having less to choose from when it comes to seats/flights etc.
Airlines have gotten really good and changing their pricing in response to demand… both actual purchases and even just people searching for flights. Think of it like this, the moment the WSOP announces their schedule, people start looking at flights to Vegas. Demand goes up for those flights and airlines raise theirs prices accordingly. Now, the WSOP may not drive demand to the extent of say, the SuperBowl. But it doesn’t have to. Everything is electronic and monitored precisely. The prices only come down when demand comes down.
Btw, it’s probably not a topic for this thread, but I saw an article recently explaining how the airline industry makes more profits from their loyalty programs and co-branded credit cards, than it does transporting people from one place to another. Think about that. It’s kind of messed up and goes to show why the industry seems so disorganized. They simply haven’t figured out how to fly people around very efficiently in a hundred years.