Summary If possible, avoid traveling during the weeks April 6th or 13th. These weeks will add 53% and 26% respectively to your flight ticket price. Book your ticket at least 31 days in advance. A 15-30 day advance purchase will add 12% to your ticket price. A 4-14 day ad...
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Summary Demand for certain warm weather destinations increase sharply as temperatures drop. Demand can increase by up to 1.9% as temperature drops just one degree. That’s a 19% increase in demand when temperature drops 10 degrees! The correlation between temperature and demand for warm weather destinations is st...
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Summary A conservative estimate shows that interest in flying to the Boston Marathon is up 42% compared to last year. If last year's pattern is any indication, so far only about a third or 33% of of total expected searches have occurred so far and the bulk...
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Summary Don’t depart on a Friday or Saturday. A Friday departure, on average, will add 22% to your ticket price and a Saturday departure will add 18%. If possible, avoid traveling during the weeks of March 16 or 23rd. These weeks will add 34% and 33% respectively to your fli...
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In order to understand if the snow storm in Atlanta has had an impact on what destinations people are searching for, Hopper compared search traffic from the last three days (Feb 9-11) to typical patterns over the last four weeks (Jan 12 - Feb 8). The top 5...
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Following the viral twitter news about poor conditions in Sochi, searches on February 4th, for flights out of Sochi increased by over 100%. The volume of searches on February 4th, for next day flights leaving Sochi represents 70% of all next day departure searches in 2014 (Figure 1). While ...
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Summary Demand for travel from the US to Sochi for the winter Olympics is very low, with the top market (New York to Sochi) only seeing about 35 searches per day. For comparison, demand for travel from all of the US to Las Vegas is up...
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People living in the North East of the US are the most likely to fly to a romantic Valentine’s day weekend get away rather than plan a trip during any other time in January through March. Those looking to break with their city for th...
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Summary Flights from Seattle and Denver to the New York area increased in popularity by 36% to 52% and constitute the top 6 of the top 10 US markets with the highest demand increase in the last week. However, demand for Super Bowl flights is down at least 20% compared ...
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Summary Flight search demand for Denver has been 6.3% above the national search average since December 1st. Demand has been up at least 10% for each of the last three weeks, and peaked at a 14% increase during the first week of January. Last year, the search demand...
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