Forget the issues of planning a family vacation, even single people are having problems booking their dream vacation.
The reason for this dilemma: airlines have been increasing their fares to the point of making it nearly impossible to find fair deals.
However, look at any airlines' travel calendar and one will notice a drastic price decrease during mid-week.
Traveling on a Tuesday or Wednesday will save money.
Think a bit more about why this is and how it makes perfect sense.
Families or vacationers like to travel on the weekend, leave on Friday and come back on Sunday night or Monday morning.
On the other hand, business travelers prefer departing on Monday, to prepare for the work week.
This leaves Tuesday and Wednesday as a basic dead period for the airlines, and to get clientele, they drop the price to have some business.
According to USA Today, flying on a Tuesday or Wednesday could save up to 35 percent.
But, this method of traveling does have some flaws. It has to do with different factors that need to be considered:
What is the departure and arrival destination?
Is the flight non-stop or are there connections along the route?
There could be sales depending on different destinations or departure points, the time of day for the flight and if the airline has a few seats left and bargain off the seats to claim a sell-out.
For example: if a person is departing from Newark, NJ, on JetBlue, in a spring or summer month, on a Tuesday morning flight, booked two months in advance-according to expedia.com, the price could be as low as $200, excluding sales or the aforementioned last-seat deal.
For a family of four, using the same criteria and website, the price would be $350-$400, a person. If booking the same trip, with the same criteria, but only a week in advance, that price could go anywhere from $400-$600.
The moral of this story is: though research is always the key in finding any good deals, booking on a Tuesday or Wednesday could be the way to save the most money.
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