Get the timing right on your purchase of airline tickets and you can save a lot of money – $319 per ticket, to be precise, according to a new study by CheapAir.com. That’s the average savings the airfare shopping engine found travelers could achieve by buying the day when fares for a domestic trip were lowest versus the day when they were highest.
So when is the optimal time to buy a ticket to get the lowest price? CheapAir monitored fares for about 5 million flights in 2014 over a booking period ranging from 320 days in advance to one day in advance. Its researchers found that fares for domestic flights were lowest 47 days in advance.
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