There are days to actually fly when it’s much cheaper. Find these specific days with a flexible travel date search.
American automatically shows a week of fares whenever you search a destination.
At Delta.com when you click on “Flexible Dates (Calendar View)” and enter departure and return dates you’ll see a whole month of fare possibilities. Frontier (FlyFrontier.com) automatically shows a seven-day range of fares, but click on “Month View” to see more dates. Jetblue has a very useful flexible date search (jetblue.com/bestfarefinder) offering a full month of fare finds.
Southwest‘s low-fare calendar is easy to find. Click on “Flexible Dates” from the home page and enter departure and arrival cities, then use the pull down menu to search by month.