Airline Ticket Purchase Tips

Here are some airline ticket purchasing tips:

• When traveling around July 4th or another busy weekend, start looking for tickets early - about 10 weeks beforehand in most cases.
• For Thanksgiving ticket purchases you may need a month more than that.
• The best time to shop for tickets is Tuesday afternoon since most domestic sales launch late Monday and are soon matched by rivals.  For non-vacation destinations, buy on a weekend.
• For reassurance that your timing is right, take advantage of travel search engines special features such as: Kayak.com's new Price Trend and Bing.travel.com's Price Predictor which will forecast whether fares are headed up or down.