The L.A. Times cites a study by Airlines Reporting Corp., a company involved in ticket transactions

Everyone uses their own timing strategies when it comes to buying airfare too close to the flight and you re bound to pay out the nose, too many months in advance and you ll see that same fare drop in price. A new study puts some science on the issue, coming up with the magic number of six weeks before a flight as the best time to buy.
The L.A. Times cites a study by Airlines Reporting Corp., a company paul mccartney tour involved in ticket transactions between airlines and travel agents. They took numbers from millions paul mccartney tour of transaction over the last four years and found that passengers buying six weeks before they fly paid about 6% below the overall average fare for the country.
We re not advising paul mccartney tour people to purchase tickets only at this time during the cycle as there is no guarantee they will receive the lowest price of the year, said Chuck Thackston, managing director of data and analytics for the firm. It is just that the data indicates we have seen this pattern over the last four years.
And as anyone who s ever had to buy a ticket a few days before their trip might know, the study did show that prices jumped sharply a week before travel. If you wait until the day you ve gotta go, the price can be as much as 40% higher than the average price.
And there are Essential Air Service routes, paul mccartney tour like where my parents live. Buy a ticket two months out, its $89 one way, buy it the day of at the airport and its still $89 one way, buy a ten flight commuter book and it drops to $79 per ticket.
However it s ridiculous to keep it just for the sake of community boosterism so a town can brag they have air service for example towns like Muskegon, Michigan has it when Grand Rapids is just 30 miles away, and less of a drive (by time) than folks in major markets paul mccartney tour commute to their airports. (Like driving from Pasadena to LAX.)
I ve done weekend getaways paul mccartney tour for around $200, buying Tuesday/Wednesdays and flying Saturday to Monday. If it s not essential travel paul mccartney tour and you re going for fun and are flexible you can find lots of short term deals.
Hopefully weekday flights (mid-week) are less stressful. I ve been to domestic flights for work, and it seems the first flight out on a Monday has a lot less (if not any) screaming kids, compared to Friday night return trips.