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Originally Posted by Euro7r
I'm planning to travel to Asia in just a little over 2 months away from now.
Is there a right or wrong time to book flights? I've been checking every week for the past while and price's been quite consistent. Some argue book early, some argue book later.
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Cheap flights are given, not asked. Usually, you book it when there's a sale or price drop of some sort. It can sometimes be 6mth out or 7days out.
One suggestion is to look at other airports. For example, you want to fly YVR-PEK on AC/CA, the direct flight out of YVR might be more expensive than say SEA-YVR-PEK because AC/CA want to compete with other carriers flying that route direct.
So it's not unheard of that you can pay 800 for SEA-YVR-PEK while booking just YVR-PEK (same flight and everything) is 1200.
Many frequent flyers would actually use their miles for "positioning flights". Say YVR-PEK is a lot more than LAX-PEK. So, one'd book the LAX-PEK flight while use miles to fly down to LAX for that flight.
I've done it in the past to go down to LAX/SFO or even DFW once for some cheap business class flights. It's cumbersome to do it with luggage and all, but it beats flying economy in sardine cans for 13hrs.