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Although Thanksgiving is still a few month away, research into historic pricing information - and other pricing control utilities - suggests that September is the ideal time to save on vacation flights. In this year, on-line tour operator Cheap My llykoski, is currently following 11,000 routes for flights during the holidays to determine the mean prices for the most common destinations.

Currently, for Thanksgiving flights, Checkmate expects the September fare to be the cheapest, with a forecast $393 median. Hopper says home fares between November 21 and 25 are currently around $358 per round trip on US dollar basis, and Thanksgiving fares are currently 8.5 per cent more than last year.

No matter what you do, make sure you make sure you get your Thanksgiving flights before October 31st, Surry says. Thereafter, real price increases begin. "lf you don't go back until early November, it'll take you about $2 a night to wait," Surry says. "During the last two week before Thanksgiving, rates begin to rise $5 a day."

Meanwhile, according to Cheap Airlines, by October moving averages will be up to $430 and by November up to $500. Hopper's Surry also advises you to take a strategical approach to your travel plans in order to get a better offer. It says the most costly date to leave is Wednesday, November 21, so if you can leave Thanksgiving tomorrow to record an average of about $68. You can also record an average of a little over $100 by coming back on Monday, November 26 as compared to Sunday, November 25, it says.

On Monday, for more detailed information on tens of favourite destinations, Google Flights introduced a new feature that provides a look at the evolution of vacation rates for 25 of the most commonly used 2017 destinations on the basis of pertinent 2017 dates. There was also a presentation of a utility that rates Thanksgiving's fares on a range from "low" to "typical" to "high", using historic fares and rates that have been available this year so far when you use Google Flights to find flights on your phone.