Continental Airline Tickets

How far in advance do you have to buy airline tickets?

how many days/weeks before a date can you buy airline tickets?

Public Comments

1. You can buy them almost a year before, or upto just a few minutes before flight time. Price will vary dramatically, though.
2. You can buy an ticket whenever you want BUT to get the best ticket price, try to book your flight a month in advance. But do remember this sometimes if you buy a ticket at the last minute, you'll get a deal because they are trying to fill a flight up, so they will go really low on airfare! Hunting and research helps!
3. The further in advance you buy, generally you get better savings. We have bought tickets only a day or two in advance though. But you will more likely be searched more if you buy a day or two ahead. You will get what they call "red-flagged" It happened to us.
4. Most of the time--the further in advance that you buy the tickets, the lower a price you will get compared to someone who waits a week or two to go to the same travel destination as you. I bought tickets almost a year in advance for trip to Brazil and only paid about $650 whereas if I waited closer to destination time--over $1000.