Shopping for cheap airline tickets for a holiday trip can be maddening. Mainly because, such tickets just don't exist! Truly cheap ones don't, anyway. If you read nothing else, in this article, read this:
You probably won't get a great airfare deal during the holidays.
But don't despair - we can help you find the cheapest airfare that's out there. And there will be some "pretty good" airfares, if you know how to look for them. And the following tips will help you do just that.
This has been the year of the "capacity cuts" - and that means fewer seats are available - and
this holiday season, the planes will really be packed. If you wait too long, you will lose out
-- you won't get a seat.
The busiest travel days of any year are the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the Sunday after
the holiday. If you can take all of Thanksgiving week off - plus a couple more days during the
week after Thanksgiving, you will save. Or fly on Thanksgiving Day.
Don't fly the week of Christmas (it's on a Thursday this year) - better to arrive a full week before. Or Christmas Day.
Warm weather resort areas will be pricey -- how about Scotland?
This would work especially well if you were heading overseas in November, where they don't celebrate Thanksgiving.
