Booking a cheap flight can be challenging. Airfares change every day and even hour by hour. Being ready to book when your flight reaches a low point is very important for getting the cheapest flight. But how do you know when you should book your flight?
How to Set-up Flight Alerts to Book Cheap Flights
Setting up a fare alert is simple and can be done in a few clicks on many booking sites. Let me show you how I do it using Kayak in a matter of minutes. This method will deliver you the cheapest airfare to your inbox daily (or weekly) instead of checking fares every single day leading up to your departure date.
The key is to get started early. You usually don’t want to book an international flight too early. Booking a few months before your departure date is usually a bad idea. Of course there are fare sales that may pop up but for the average flight somewhere around 6 weeks before departure is a good time to book your international flight.
Step 1
Set-up your fare alerts a few weeks before the six week window. A study by Kayak actually showed international flights hit their lowest points 34 days before the departure date and domestic flights hit their low point 21 days before departure. I like to start looking a little before that simply because it is an average and airfares can go up and down suddenly.
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