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Back in September, we issued the 2010 Bing Travel Holiday Forecast to give travelers an idea of what to expect when traveling this holiday season. If you still haven’t booked your Thanksgiving or Christmas airfare and are feeling a little unsure about what to expect, don’t fear! We’ve...

Recently a reporter asked us to find an example of a route (origin/destination) for which the fare has gone down in the last year. We couldn’t find a single one. That pretty much sums up the state of summer travel. As we head into Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial kick-off to the summer season...

Dust off those bathing suits – it’s almost time for a little summer sun! With summer just around the corner, you’re probably already thinking about your next vacation and how to maximize your travel budget. Today, we issued our 2010 summer travel forecast, and while we’d love...

If you’ve been weathering the long winter, as I have, you’re probably ready for a warm escape and some fun in the sun. Today, Bing Travel issued its 2010 spring break forecast , and thankfully, we’ve found some deals for spring travel. However, there are fewer deals for airfare than...

As 2009 draws to a close, we thought it’d be interesting to look back on the year in airfare. If you compare the past three years, the first thing worth noticing is the broad similarity between airfare patterns in 2009 and those in 2007. Except for late spring and early summer of 2009, the average...

For the first time since February, the Bing Travel 100 Airfare Index is higher than it was a year ago. Throughout the summer of 2009 (indicated by the red line), fares were substantially lower than they were in summer 2008 (indicated by the blue line). This is mostly because prices in 2008 were extraordinarily...

Have you made your holiday travel plans yet? If you’re thinking of flying somewhere for Thanksgiving, now’s the time to get shopping! As we pointed out in our first forecast back in August , holiday fares typically increase as Thanksgiving and Christmas get closer. And this year has looked...

As faithful readers of this blog know, one of the tools in the Fareologist’s arsenal is the Bing Travel 100 Airfare Index, which measures the average low price over the next several months across 100 popular markets. Here’s how the index has changed over the past week: Looks like a steep...

Now that fall has officially arrived (though at least here in Seattle, for one more day it still feels like summer), I thought it’d be a good time to take a look at what’s going on with airfares over the next three months. In order to dig into the data, I looked at the routes we track in...

Not only are airfares lower now than they were last year, but they’re also swinging around a lot more. Over the past month, the Bing Travel 100 Index has been whipsawing quite a bit. The graph below shows the index over the last 30 days, and compares it with the same period in 2008: Obviously,...

You might not be thinking about your holiday travel plans just yet, but here at Bing Travel we’re always looking ahead. And today we’ve published our first take on the 2009 holiday travel season. At this point, holiday travel is looking markedly more affordable than last year. Domestic Thanksgiving...

When I give people advice on planning a trip, I always encourage them to try moving their travel dates forward or backward a day. You may be surprised to learn that this simple strategy can save you money on almost any itinerary! To check this out, I looked at the national average low price for all round...

If you’re anything like me, you haven’t made any travel plans yet for Labor Day weekend. Fortunately, it’s not too late. Below, I’ve graphed out the Bing Travel 100 Index for trips that depart on the Friday before Labor Day: There are a few things worth noticing. First, average...

Usually around Wednesday I start thinking about what I’m going to write in my Friday blog post. And the last few weeks, I’ve been seeing tons of great deals! So I investigate, make graphs, test some jokes and write up my findings. And then I show up at work on Friday to find that all the...

Travelers who watch fares every day got a nice bonus this week: Airfares dropped about 5 percent on Tuesday and Wednesday, then gave back about half of that decline over the past two days. To put this in perspective, Wednesday’s price level was the lowest we’ve seen since the end of May....

Sometimes you don’t get to choose your travel dates. Maybe you can only get a certain day off from work, or perhaps your friends are all meeting you in Vegas at a very specific time. But on other trips, maybe you have that flexibility. And flexibility means saving money. To illustrate, I looked...

Here at Bing Travel, we gather millions of airfares every day. We not only use this data for our Price Predictors , but we also display it to help you be flexible and save money when you’re planning your travel. Imagine a hypothetical trip from Seattle to San Diego in August, which just happens...

After I wrote about last week’s price volatility , airfares seemed to take that as some kind of encouragement: I’ve highlighted the trend over the last week in red. Notice that there was a huge drop in airfares last Wednesday, followed by an almost-immediate climb back to near the previous...

Last week, while you guys were off barbecuing and shooting bottle rockets, I was staring at airfares, which jagged sharply higher last Wednesday. This morning, a few price cuts were introduced into the market that helped offset some of the July 1 rise. But overall, airfares are still a good bit higher...

In anticipation of the upcoming holiday weekend, I thought it’d be useful to take a look at what happened with Fourth of July airfares this year. For most people, it’s probably too late to make air travel plans for this weekend. But what happened this year might provide useful information...