When you’re booking travel far out and your preferred date and time costs too much, book a flight that will likely have a schedule change so that you can switch to the expensive, ideal flight instead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The Mechanics<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
How do you know which flights are most likely to have a schedule change? Look at both current flights and historical flights on a site like FlightRadar24<\/a> or FlightAware<\/a> to see what an airline usually flies, then look for flights in the future with different schedules. Alternatively, take a look at what they\u2019re selling in the near future and extrapolate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, let’s say you want to fly from Salt Lake City, UT to Boise, ID on a Sunday. Currently, scheduled non-stop flights on Delta for Sundays in July leave at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Spring of 2025, the schedule looks almost<\/em> the same:<\/p>\n\n\n\n But, the schedule has a smoking gun – that 5:54 PM flight doesn’t currently exist, and it probably won’t exist by the time Spring 2025 rolls around (#RemindMeOfThisPostIn2025). When that flight is inevitably cancelled, you’ll be able to switch to another day, a different flight on the same day, or if you’ve really got rizz<\/a>, perhaps even switch to a different airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are of course caveats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The best news is that you can probably play this game with three or four airlines at minimum, so you’ve got multiple shots at getting your way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good luck and happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n\n\n Honorary travel hacking shirt awarded only to those that can turn an SLC-BOI schedule change into an LAX-HNL flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Game Major US and European airlines will usually tinker with published schedules until about two months prior to departure, and most also let you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9835,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions\/9835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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