When is the best time to buy airfare for a flight within the US?
To be honest there really is no best time to purchase an airline ticket for domestic travel. The airline industry can increase or decrease fares whenever they want, so it is a crapshoot, so to speak. The week of October 22nd, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal which basically said that those who booked early, at least by September, have been able to secure the best fares for holiday travel. The article went on to say do not delay in making your reservations because you will only end up paying more. Various sources were quoted in the article but I honestly don’t recall them now. We always go away during the holidays and this year I had procrastinated on making our airline reservations and ended up paying more. I took a look at the Southwest site today and the fare display is very different from when I booked last month. It looks like they have lumped the discount fares into one section – “Wanna Get Away”. Previously, it seemed like they had more discount fares and the fares
