Cheap Flight Specials

Usually it starts around 17 December and lasts until 7 January or so. Bearing all this in mind, if you still plan to fly somewhere over the holiday season, here's how you should get close to looking for cheap New Year flight deals. What is the best New Year' s flight booking period? The majority of airline companies that start to sell a ticket are approximately one year (12 months) from the date of travel.

South West Airlines, which only a few month later published air fares.) The New Year flight of the next year will be offered, just like December of this year. They do not want to delay until the last moment to make a booking because rates have a tendency to rise later. However, you do not want to make a booking too early as you may miss out on a possible fall in your rates in the near term.

You should try to make an effort to make a reservation 5-10 month before the trip. This is much sooner than most other flight bookers, so you have a better opportunity to get the cheap places. However, it is not a good solution to simply pay an old ticket price from February to July. If a particularly good ticket price appears - and this is most likely the case during this interval - this is the perfect moment for a booking.

Unfortunately, the nearer you get to the New Year, especially within a few month, we wouldn't expect to get anything that resembles a "cheap" flight. Cheap last-minute air travel or stand-by air travel are practically non-existent these days. What's more, there's no need to worry about the costs. What do New Year flight costs? So if you are living in a big US town ( NYC, LA, etc.), a great ticket price over New Year would be ~500 dollars round trip to Europe, maybe a little higher to Asia.

So if you are living in a smaller home exchange a great New Year rate to Europe will be nearer to $600 return. Naturally these are perfect (although not very unusual) rates if you are booking during this time from February to July. Any good New Year rate posted in October would cost over $800.

So the more flexibility you have with an airport, the better your chance of getting a cheap flight. As an example, rates can be $1,000 for a round trip from Philadelphia to Amsterdam, but only $500 from New York City to Amsterdam. From Philadelphia to New York City you can get a flight, rail or coach for only $50 round trip.

In this example, by dividing your travel into two routes instead of one, you can reduce the overall costs from $1,000 to $550. Similarly, the rates from NYC to Amsterdam can be $1,000, but only $500 NYC to Brussels. When cheap travel is a top priorities, either take a holiday in Belgium instead of the Netherlands, or just get on a plane if you arrive in Brussels and set off for Holland for far less than the $1,000 it would have taken to get there directly.

When you have a flex holiday season and it is a top Priority to keep your flight cheap, we strongly recommend that you buy New Year' s Eve tickets and another season to do so. Although you really want to go in wintry weather, late November/early December and January/February are usually some of the best times for flying.