![]() ![]() For international, it’s four to even 10 months out. Keyes said the period each year when cheapest winter holiday flights are most likely to surface is known as the “Goldilocks window.” For domestic flights this year, that’s roughly three to six months out, he said. … That’s how it works with peak travel airfare.” When are swimsuits going on sale? In the wintertime. When are those going on sale? In the summertime. “Think about it like you’re buying a winter coat. “The secret to getting cheap holiday flights can be summed up in four words: Always book opposite season,” he said. Keyes of Going compares ticket shopping to clothes shopping. Generally, US visitors to planning to fly to Mexico can follow the timing suggestions for the domestic market. Idyllic Akumal Bay on the Caribbean Sea in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, makes an enticing winter escape. If price is the main consideration, the lowest priced airline tickets with some choice still available falls within this window,” Klee said via email. “According to the 2023 Domestic Airfare Study, the best day to book cheap flights is on average 70 days before the departure date. Jeff Klee, the CEO of, suggests a general booking timeframe of about 70 days out in 2023. “Prices are still pretty elevated, but they are going to drop into that sweet spot.” … Don’t expect to book domestic trips for the holidays for a couple of months,” Berg said. ![]() Prices will probably be at their lowest the last two weeks of September, the first two weeks of October. “For domestic, you have a little bit more time. Flyers can miss out on deals any time of year by waiting so late but doing so for the winter holidays causes “bigger consequences,” she warned.įor international flights, Berg advises booking by the second week of September to avoid higher prices. They’re booking much closer to flight departures,” she said. “Travelers post-pandemic are planning very last minute. Not booking it, but planning it,” said Haley Berg, lead economist at the travel app Hopper.īerg noted a new costly habit in the flying public she’s seen popping up. “I would say that Christmas in July – July 25 – is when you should start planning your Christmas travel. “That’s all telling me that while things are going to continue to be busy, airlines don’t have the same amount of pricing power they did last year, so you can certainly expect there to be more cheap flights available and at the very least not expect to have to pay these sort of eye-popping, borderline-gouging prices.” Keyes noted that airfares have been “falling rapidly in the past year.” He said it hit a peak in May 2022 and has fallen in 10 of the past 13 months. The silver lining? “I’m pretty bullish in terms of where things are headed fare-wise,” Keyes said. … All of that is telling me to expect more records to be broken and expect it to be another busy, busy winter travel period,” Keyes told CNN Travel. “We’ve seen records being broken all throughout 2023. That’s right in line with what Scott Keyes, founder of travel site Going, is expecting for the holidays. Many days this year “are on par or greater than the most recent pre-pandemic travel year in 2019, and the TSA recently announced it had its busiest day in history,” he said. ![]() “Air travel is officially back, and I expect the momentum to continue through this year’s holiday season,” Phil Dengler, co-founder of online travel advice site The Vacationer, told CNN Travel in an email interview. Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/Shutterstockīefore buying a ticket, it’s good to know what to anticipate in airports and this skies this winter. Traveling on Christmas Day might save you money - and you're likely to have fewer people with grapple with in the airport and on the flight. Travelers wait in a TSA security screening line at Orlando International Airport in Florida two days before Christmas Eve in 2022. Should Leibach buy those tickets soon? CNN Travel talked to experts about their prognosis for the winter holiday travel season and what would-be flyers looking for the least expensive seat possible should be doing now. “I find German Christmas is just a little less commercial … and this goes back to my childhood – my dad took us there a lot.” An employee of an engineering firm, Leibach has deep roots in Germany and has gone to visit family in Mainstockheim, a small town in Bavaria, for decades. The calendar knows what’s hard for our heat-addled minds to realize: Thanksgiving in the United States is only four months away, and Christmas and New Year’s is just a month later.Ĭhristmas is definitely on the mind of 61-year-old John Leibach of Augusta, Georgia. It’s been so blazin’ hot in this record-setting summer that it’s hard to even fathom the question: Is it time to start buying airline tickets for winter holiday travel to lock in a decent price? ![]()
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