Study: The Best Time to Buy Cheap Airline Tickets is 6 Weeks Before a Flight

People often think that the sooner you buy your airline tickets, the better. Flying home for the holidays this year? Start looking now! But according to a new study, you’ll find the cheapest tickets six weeks before your trip – not more, not less. Airlines Reporting Corp., which acts as a middle man on ticketing transactions between airlines [...]

Air Malta chairman warns: cheap election flights ‘unaffordable’

Air Malta chairman Louis Farrugia with finance minister Tonio Fenech this morning. Air Malta chairman Louis Farrugia has warned that the national airline "cannot afford" in any way to issue any cheap tickets for voters living abroad should a snap election be called.

Rob Carrick's Reader: Where the cheap flights are

Rob Carrick rounds up the best in personal finance reading on the Web

Need to vent, re: greedy, unhelpful airline.

This is a discussion on Need to vent, re: greedy, unhelpful airline. within the Cruise & Travel Chat forums, part of the category; I am just so royally pissed off at Continental. I just wasted nearly an hour on the phone with their ...

16 Tips to Save Money When You Travel

No matter where you travel in the world, holidays can get quite expensive if you're not careful. Between the airline tickets, accommodations, and daily meals, expenses tend to add up quickly even if you've got cheap car hire.

Bid for cheap upgrades?

A few days before my short flight on US Airways from Charlotte to Baltimore last fall, US Airways sent an email asking if I'd like to upgrade to first class for $90 at the airport, if a seat was still available. I didn't take the US Airways offer -- $90 seemed like a stiff price for a flight of just an hour -- but I might have been tempted on a longer flight. US Airways and a few others are ...