Cheap flights from your city: buy now or wait?
Short answer: book 1.5–2 months ahead (+16.4% over the lowest fare on average, vs +48.8% in the last 3 days), and buy when today's price is low for that route. Piratefly gives that Buy or Wait verdict from 5,218,072 tracked fares across 48,703 routes.
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Price drops right now
All price drops →- Kaunas from London ·
€316-91% €30 - Nuremberg from Alicante ·
€103-84% €16 - Puerto Iguazu from Buenos Aires ·
€151-83% €26 - Daegu from Seoul ·
€209-80% €41 - Vienna from Stockholm ·
€191-79% €41 - Aktobe from Sharm El Sheikh ·
€305-78% €66 - Naples from Venice ·
€61-75% €15 - Isola di Capo Rizzuto from Milan ·
€59-75% €15
Drops vs last week's price on the same route. Partner links: same price for you, they pay us.
- 5.2Mprices tracked over time
- 49kroutes we can judge
- ≥10%real drops only
- Buy / waita verdict, not just a price
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Every figure comes from our open fare dataset, published with a DOI: doi:10.5281/zenodo.23290390.
Questions
What is Piratefly?
A free site that finds the cheapest flights from the airports near you. We check fares every day, compare them with what each route usually costs and show only real deals and real price drops. You book on the airline or partner site at the price you see.
How does Piratefly know if a price is good?
We have recorded 5,218,072 price observations over time and compare today against that history. We publish a verdict only on the 48,703 routes with enough of it: below eight observations we say nothing at all.
Why would you ever tell me to wait?
Because a comparison site earns on the click you make today, so it will never tell you to wait. We record prices over time, so when today is expensive for this route we say so and offer to warn you when it drops.
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