“the fare i saw yesterday was $600, and it went up to 850 this morning, didn’t it happen in the morning?” last week she ordered a flight for a colleague on a business trip, staring at her mobile screen. I was so familiar with this scene — i tried to brush my cell phone at 2 a. M. And spent the 3 p. M. Hour trying to get a low-priced ticket, and i finally found that the airline fare was not a “time for luck”, and that there were a lot of airline patterns. Today, taking into account the experience of my frequent travels over the years, and in addition to the bottom of my air travel agent friends, to clarify the issue of “almost a few price increases on airline tickets” in order to help you spend less money。
First, it is clear that there are no “fixed points” in the air tickets, but the rates will fluctuate between 12:00 and 6 a. M., 1-5 p. M. And 8-10 p. M.**. My previous flight to beijing was booked for three days: at 2 a. M. On the first day, the ticket price fell from 780 to 650; at 3 p. M., it was refreshed the next day, rising back to 720; and at 9 p. M., it fell to 680 because of the remaining seats that day. The air ticket agent friend stated that this was due to the fact that the airline would “reveal the ticket” during these periods - to adjust the prices for the following day by looking at sales data from the previous day in the morning; and to make ad hoc adjustments for discounts in the afternoon and at night, based on the number of seats remaining on the day and the prices of competing tickets。
But don't think it's enough to keep an eye on these periods, and the key behind the “replacement” is the “sale phase”, not just a few points. For example, one or two months in advance, with small price increases, would hardly be significant; 15 to 30 days in advance, because of the “pre-sale peak”, prices could change several times a day, especially during the afternoon hours, when “low morning and afternoon prices increase”; 3 to 7 days before departure, if there were a lot of seats left, airlines could place low tickets “clean up” after 8 p. M.; but if there were only a small number of seats, there could be a sudden increase in prices in the early morning, i would have met me last year — 580 in the morning, two days before departure, and then at 6 a. M., the result would go up to 900, because there were only three seats left。
There is also a point that can easily be ignored:** the timing of price increases from different sources is different.** the network of officials and the app are usually priced 1-2 hours earlier than third-party platforms (e. G., a certain journey, a pig). In contrast, the same airline ticket to shanghai dropped to 520 a. M. And the third-party platform did not update the price until 2:30 a. M., while the third-party platform sometimes places an “exclusive coupon” at 2 p. M., which is cheaper than the official network, but that preference usually lasts only one or two hours and is missed. Also, the prices may be different if checked on the ap and computer pages — i find that at around 3 p. M., there are more price adjustments at the ap end of the afternoon, the end of the page lags behind, and sometimes the app has increased, and the original price is shown on the page。
We have to avoid several common faults. The first is that “the morning ticket must be cheap”, and the third is that “the friday afternoon ticket is the best,” and the actual friday afternoon or sunday night is the peak of the trip, and the price is higher than the price on tuesday or wednesday morning and night, and it is more likely that the price will be lower after the price increase; and the fourth is that “the price will be lower immediately”, and sometimes the airline will put a small amount of low “test water” on the next price, which will be higher in the afternoon, but if no one buys more in the evening, i will try to see the price increase higher than the price on tuesday or wednesday morning and night。
Finally, i would like to say to you that the purchase of air tickets should not focus on “some points of price adjustment”, but rather on “time of travel + ticket phase + channel”. For example, a one-month advance booking of non-sabbatical airline tickets, focusing on the 1-5 p. M. Adjustment; flight booking close to departure, with an additional focus on the 8-10 p. M. “clean-up” period; and double-source booking, with both app and computer pages. If you are afraid of losing the price down, you can also set a price alert on the network, and once the price is raised in the area you want, you can send the message directly – more sober than you spend the night crouching, and you can avoid buying the price out of a tumbler。
