The cheapest tickets on international flights are bought 24 weeks in advance of departure. At 24 wee

An Alitalia A330 sits at its gate last May at New York s Kennedy International Airport. A study found that tickets for international travel are cheapest when bought 24 weeks before travel, on average. (Terry Maxon/DMN)
The cheapest tickets on international flights are bought 24 weeks in advance of departure. At 24 weeks out, the average fare of $1,004 was 26.6 percent under the average international fare of $1,368.
The findings from the Airlines Reporting Corp. are based on ARC’s study of airline ticket purchases between January 2013 through July 2014. It updates and slightly changes findings from a similar January 2012 study of 2011 ticket purchases.
Air ticket pricing is dynamic, and ARC isn t advising anyone to purchase tickets only at these times during the sales cycle as there is no guarantee they will receive the lowest price; it is just what the data pattern indicates during the study period, Thackston said.
Thackston said the latest study is “significant airline tickets southwestern because airline tickets southwestern it reveals that not only have the lowest airfares shifted from six to eight weeks out for domestic travel, but the savings are markedly greater on a percentage basis. It was also interesting to see that the data showed the least expensive tickets were purchased on a Sunday as opposed to Tuesday, which is a common belief.”
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