Best Time To Find Cheap Flights

• baseball4

  

  When is it?
  
  I'm trying to book a flight to Vegas with a few friends. We were going to book 2 days ago when flights were $260 roundtrip. We look back today and it's almost $400. We waited a couple of days to see if a couple of friends that were dragging their feet were going to join. Is it safe to assume prices will come back down? We are trying to book for mid May.
• sleeper

  

  Southwest.com
• gorocks99

  

  Fly on a Tuesday/Wednesday.
• sportchampps

  I've always heard that the lowest prices on sites like travelocity can be found on Tuesday evenings. I have found this to be true in the past as well.
• OSH

  

  Shop around.
  
  Allegiant does nice flights to Vegas out of select airports. As do other smaller, lesser known airlines: Jet Blue, AirTran, etc.
  
  Kayak.com is a good comparison site.
• Automatik

  

  I've always heard Tuesdays were the best day to book, but I've never noticed any truth to that.
  
  Ever since I've discovered Bing travel it's all I've used. Just set up an alert and you're set. The price predictor is legit. I use kayak.com also and compare.
• FatHobbit

  

  Automatik;1078672 wrote:I've always heard Tuesdays were the best day to book, but I've never noticed any truth to that.
  
  Ever since I've discovered Bing travel it's all I've used. Just set up an alert and you're set. The price predictor is legit. I use kayak.com also and compare.

  I just checked out Bing for the first time, but I think I like Kayak better. The flexible search did not work for the cities I wanted to fly to, and the price predictor was not available either. (Those seemed like cool features, but they weren't working for me.)
• thavoice

  Are you asking when is the best time to book a flight...or what day is the best to actually fly out?
• Fab1b

  

  Alot of times I end up booking directly through the airlines themselves, you'd be surprised compared to some of the travel sites.
• Bigdogg

  Book around eight weeks before you fly.
• Midstate01

  

  Just FYI. My uncle works as a media consultant for Priceline. He said when you look at prices, it reads your IP. The more you check the higher the price will go.
• vball10set

  Midstate01;1078780 wrote:Just FYI. My uncle works as a media consultant for Priceline. He said when you look at prices, it reads your IP. The more you check the higher the price will go.

  this is good to know--thanks!
• GOONx19

  

  I'm going for 5 days the week after the semester ends. $160 roundtrip direct from Lexington to Vegas.
• dlazz

  I haven't flown in several years so I can't help, OP. Sorry
• vball10set

  GOONx19;1079587 wrote:I'm going for 5 days the week after the semester ends. $160 roundtrip direct from Lexington to Vegas.

  Who'd you book your flight through?
• OSH

  

  vball10set;1079605 wrote:Who'd you book your flight through?

  Probably Allegiant.
  
  Allegiant flys out of Lexington, Kentucky for real nice rates.
• GOONx19

  

  Yep. AllegiantAir.com, flight only, Lexington to Las Vegas, April 28 - May 2.