A terrific insider tip on the best days to shop for airfare deals showed up in my inbox today, courtesy of the FareCompare.com weekly newsletter.

(FareCompare, created by Rick Seany, is one of my very favorite resources for insider air travel info.)

Based on years of tracking airfare changes and looking for patterns, Rick says the best time to shop online for airfare is:

Mondays 3 pm EDT and continuing through Wednesday.

That’s the period when airlines tend to file and match sale fares. Then apparently the sales end on Fridays, plus the airlines often hike the fare on Thursday afternoons — so weekends will usually be a bad time to shop!

You’ll definitely want to check out both FareCompare.com and Rick’s blog, RickSeany.com, for a wealth of more insider info and deals.

And let me know if this airfare shopping tip seems to work for you! Use the comment box below.

Carol

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