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If you're an average American human, you will book your Thanksgiving flights in September. This month's Turkey Day flight rush marks the start of a dizzy and expensive holiday travel season. Booking flights at just the right time could save you precious dollars. Hence, the experts at CheapAir tracked more than 365 million airfares over 8,000 markets to determine the precise time to buy your Thanksgiving plane tickets. There are no good Thanksgiving deals, only better bad deals. Thanksgiving (Thursday, Nov. 27) is the most popular flying holiday of the year. Kids come home from college and families flock to Grandma's. It's a short holiday, too - basically a very long weekend - so the airlines have us right where they want us. Don't get discouraged, and you might if you look for good deals. It turns out that it's a myth that the day before Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day of the year; summer weekends win that distinction. Nor are there significantly more flight delays around Thanksgiving than any other time of the year. But this holiday definitely earns a spot in the top ten. 5 questions to determine if you should buy your Thanksgiving flight now. With the unofficial end-of-summer now past, this is a time that many would-be travelers start thinking about Thanksgiving flights. If history serves, more people will book flights for Turkey Day in September than during all the previous months combined. International Flights. For both reasons above — they are popular and there is less air service to them — it’s usually better to book international flights further in advance than you would book a domestic ticket. Our study revealed that the best time to buy flights to the South Pacific was 70 days out, on average. Some examples from Skyscanner's data: -- Thanksgiving airfares booked as late as the week of Sept. 14 may still save you 4%. -- Christmas travel booked as late as the week of Aug. 31 may save 12.7%, -- New Year's Eve travel booked the week of Sept. 14 could save 8.5%. Travel website Hopper analyzes best time to buy too. Also, flights to Europe for the summer. In that case, we actually found that the best time to buy was 319 days in advance! And the best day to buy domestic flights for both the Thanksgiving and Christmas periods was June 4th, 5 months before Thanksgiving and 6 months before Christmas. Now, say that 6 months later 6 of the 10 flights have gotten full to the point where the $400 seats, and in some cases the $440 and $500 seats are gone. At this point, the lowest fare would still be the same–$400–but there will only be 4 flights to choose from instead of 10. The Day Before Thanksgiving. It turns out that it's a myth that the day before Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day of the year; summer weekends win that distinction. AAA's Troy Green told NPR, There are about five to 10 days during the summer that are busier than Thanksgiving.. Buy your tickets a little later and the savings drop off. -- Thanksgiving airfares booked as late as the week of Sept. 14 may still save you 4%. -- New Year's Eve travel booked the week of Sept. 14 could save 8.5%. Travel website Hopper analyzes best time to buy too.
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