Fares & Booking
Risk is concentrated on a short trip
The same delay, closure or illness that dents a fortnight can consume a weekend entirely. That changes how much protection is worth…
Fares & Booking
How short-haul pricing moves, and when booking actually gets cheaper.
21 articles · updated August 11, 2026 · page 2 of 2
Fares & Booking
Why the price changes between two searches
The same seat can show two prices an hour apart, and almost none of that is about you. It is about how seats are released.
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Unbundling, and what a headline fare stopped including
The advertised number describes carriage and very little else. Everything the fare used to cover is now sold separately, and that…
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The advance-purchase window is a tendency, not a rule
There is no magic number of weeks. There is a shape to how fares behave over time, and knowing the shape beats memorising a rule.
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Price alerts and the question they cannot answer
An alert tells you a number moved. It cannot tell you whether the number is good, which is the only thing you actually need to know.
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Why the outbound and the return rarely cost the same
Half of a round trip often carries most of its price. That asymmetry is about who else wants those seats, in that direction, on…
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The fare that drops after you have paid
Seeing a lower price a week after booking feels like a loss. It is usually just the flight selling more slowly than the forecast…
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The calendar decides the fare before you do
Some weekends are expensive everywhere at once. Knowing which ones, and why, is worth more than any trick applied to the wrong…
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A connection can cost less and take the weekend with it
Routing through a hub is often the cheaper itinerary. On two nights it is also the one most likely to leave you with a single…