Hopper for travelers is a new website created a few months ago. Hopper for travelers contains riguing reports about how to lower your travel costs, among other very useful tips for budget travel.
According to NY Times, the common notion that Tuesday is the best day for buying airline ticket is outdated information already. The explanation behind this notion is that airlines release their bargains early in the week and competitors scramble to match them. Though an ounce of truth can be seen there, things have become much more complicated these days.
NY Times reports that countless companies which offer helpful reports and tools during airfare decisions are now available. These include Google's Explore Flights engine and Kayak's price trend feature. Now, amongst these great travel advice companies is Hopper for travelers.
The main business of Hopper for travelers is collecting blog posts for travelers. Currently, Hopper for travelers have released intriguing reports about how to lower travelers' travel costs.
The reports of Hopper for travelers are available at this link: hopper.com/research. In order to secure the travel information, one must first sign up for the mailing list of Hopper for travelers, or simply follow the company's chief data scientist on Twitter at @patricksurry. According to NY Times, Hopper for travelers is have come up with data of more frequency and transparency than other reports which try to answer travel questions.
Now, some static reports from other companies may provide only broad conclusions, but Hopper for travelers reportedly also offer customizable tools which are as great as they are simple to use. The detail and customizability of Hopper for travelers has more specificity, even if one already know his or her travel destination or not.
Hopper for travelers is also providing information using a huge amount of data. About a billion price points are reportedly delivered to them every day.
The following conclusions came from NY Times after checking out Hopper for travelers.
Hopper for travelers Conclusion 1: When to Book and When to Fly
Thursday is the best day to book a plane ticket, but that doesn't mean saving much money. A traveler must reserve a domestic flight on Thursday and it will cost $10 less on average than reserving a ticket on Saturday. Saturday, by the way, is reportedly the worst day to book domestic flights.
For international flights, a traveler can save over $25 on average when booking flights on Thursday as well, as compared to Sundays, the worst day to book flights out of the country.
Hopper for travelers' reports also say that the day of the week you depart and the day you return matter more than the day you book. For domestic flights, Wednesday is the best day to leave as it can save you up to $40 on average. Sunday meanwhile is the worst departure day. Returning Tuesday will save you over $45 than returning Friday. For out of the country flights, Wednesdays are the best day to both leave and return.
Hopper for travelers has these "Origin-Destination" reports which are extremely useful for those kinds of issues. They are available at this link: hopper.com/research/hopper-research-data. In this report, a traveler can pop in any route, and get a customized report with the cheapest day to book, fly, average costs and many more.
Hopper for travelers Conclusion 2: Where to Fly
The main thing is this: It's not about when you fly, but where you fly. According to the NY Times, one of Hopper for travelers' most interesting reports tackles flying to Europe this summer. They have produced a list which compare the most-searched European destinations from each of four cities - New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago - with the cheapest destinations and came up with the conclusions below.
Accordingly, London, Paris and Rome are at or near the top of the popularity list for all four cities. But the cheapest destinations from each of those cities varied widely. For New York, the cheapest is Bergen in Norway and Oslo and Copenhagen; for Chicago, cheapest destinations in Europe are Warsaw and Stuttgart and Düsseldorf in Germany; for Los Angeles it's Copenhagen, Stockholm and Moscow; and for Boston, the most budget-friendly is Lisbon, Dublin and Istanbul.
Hopper for travelers is definitely a useful and helpful way to travel and lower costs. They also have interactive tools for choosing a destination. Hopper for travelers can take your home airport and give a traveler a world map with average prices by city. Now that's awesome!
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