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Mar 11
Some examples of the cheap flights @goingtweets found for its members in February (fares roundtrip, not Spirit):
🇻🇳 Vietnam - $599
🇺🇸 Hawaii - $197
🇵🇹 Portugal - $379
🇯🇵 Tokyo - $447 nonstop
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Mar 11
Airfare up 1% in February. Flight prices are currently:
- 7% higher than 12 months ago
- 13% cheaper than June 2022 peak
- 4% higher than February 2020
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Mar 11
Adjusting for overall inflation, February flight prices were:
- 5% higher vs. 1 year ago
- 17% cheaper than 6 years ago
- 28% cheaper than 10 years ago
Even with the recent bumps, real airfare is still way, way down.
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Mar 11
Some examples of the cheap flights @goingtweets found for its members in February (fares roundtrip, not Spirit):
🇻🇳 Vietnam - $599
🇺🇸 Hawaii - $197
🇵🇹 Portugal - $379
🇯🇵 Tokyo - $447 nonstop
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1 Feb 2023
For the first time, monthly TSA traveler numbers topped the same 2019 month.
January 2023: 60.5 million
January 2019: 58.6 million
Air travel—demand, fares, capacity, etc.—is renormalizing.
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Feb 5
Air travel volume:
Jan 2026: 65,860,911 ( 0.1%)
Jan 2025: 65,777,233
Will 2026 be the first time since 2009 with fewer passengers YoY? My gut says yes
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Mar 2
Air travel volume:
Feb 2026: 64,256,259 ( 2.6%)
Feb 2025: 62,590,333
Larger-than-normal demand in the slowest travel month of the year.
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Feb 13
Airfare up 7% (!) in January—outside of the pandemic, this is the 2nd largest one-month jump on record.
Airfares are currently:
- 2% higher than 12 months ago
- 14% cheaper than June 2022 peak
- 3% higher than February 2020
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Feb 13
Adjusting for overall inflation, January flight prices were:
- Flat vs. 1 year ago
- 18% cheaper than 6 years ago
- 30% cheaper than 10 years ago
The Golden age of cheap flights continues.
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Feb 13
Some examples of the cheap flights @goingtweets found for its members in January (fares roundtrip, not Spirit):
🇬🇷 Greece - $411
🇵🇹 Azores - $462
🇲🇦 Morocco - $396
🇺🇸 Hawaii - $199
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Jan 16
After going 10 of 12 in my 2025 travel predictions, here are my 12 predictions for 2026:
1. Flights will be cheaper than 2025
2. There will be fewer mistake fares
3. You’ll be able to bring liquids on airplanes again
4. More cheap flights to Japan
5. Spirit won’t survive
Jan 9
Scoring my 2025 travel predictions:
✅ 10
❌ 2
1. There will be 3–7 mistake fares
Verdict: ❌ (Fortunately there were 17 mistake fares!)
2. You’ll have more elbow room
Verdict: ✅ Load fare 83.6% --> 82.2%
3. More flights to Asia than 2024
Verdict: ✅ 6% more in 2025
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Jan 16
6. Spirit will be bought by Frontier
7. No bag fee hikes this year for the 6 biggest US airlines
8. Air travel capacity will continue to grow
9. Fewer overall air travel passengers
10. Alaska will announce free Wifi
11. Delta will involuntarily bump <10 passengers all year
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Jan 16
12. Allegiant Air will have the lowest rate of lost bags
More details on each prediction here: going.com/guides/travel-pred…
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Scott Keyes retweeted
I've been booking deals with Going since 2022 and I'm going to Ireland this spring, my round flight was under 500dls
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Jan 13
Flight prices rose 5% in December.
Airfares are currently:
- 3% lower than 12 months ago
- 17% cheaper than June 2022 peak
- 2% cheaper than February 2020
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Jan 13
Adjusting for overall inflation, December flight prices were:
- 7% cheaper than 1 year ago
- 21% cheaper than 6 years ago
- 29% cheaper than 10 years ago
The Golden age of cheap flights continues.
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Jan 13
Some examples of the cheap flights @goingtweets found for its members in December (fares roundtrip, not Spirit):
🇨🇭 Switzerland - $250
🇳🇿 New Zealand - $587
🇲🇦 Morocco - $370
🇺🇸 Hawaii - $188
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Jan 9
Scoring my 2025 travel predictions:
✅ 10
❌ 2
1. There will be 3–7 mistake fares
Verdict: ❌ (Fortunately there were 17 mistake fares!)
2. You’ll have more elbow room
Verdict: ✅ Load fare 83.6% --> 82.2%
3. More flights to Asia than 2024
Verdict: ✅ 6% more in 2025
6 Jan 2025
After going 10/12 in 2024, here's my 2025 @goingtweets travel predictions:
Good stuff:
(1) There will be 3–7 mistake fares.
(2) You’ll have more elbow room.
(3) More flights to Asia than 2024.
(4) More deals to Europe than 2024.
(5) No bag fee increases.
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Jan 9
11. There will be a US airline merger
Verdict: ❌
12. Higher-than-average flight delays
Verdict: ✅ 21.9% of flights were delayed (avg: ~20%)
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