For those who remain undeterred by the daunting lines and flight delays at Canadian airports, questions remain about how to save money on air travel amid…
Airfares — often the biggest line item on a vacation — jumped 11.6 per cent year over year in May, according to Statistics Canada. Tickets are now above pre-pandemic levels, up 15 per cent from 2019 to $960 on average for international flights from Canada, says Montreal-based Hopper Inc., with no sign of a dip in the coming months.
Weekends are often pricier, and flights scheduled early in the morning and late at night are frequently cheaper, as fewer folks want to fly then, said Duncan Dee, former chief operating officer at Air Canada. “Paris in the summer or London in the summer — that equals high airfares, high hotel prices and fully booked restaurants.”
One way around attentive algorithms are alternative airports. Those in Hamilton, Ont., Buffalo and Plattsburgh, N.Y., and Bellingham, Wash., can present more palatable prices and fewer delays. “To get a car rental in Italy — a little gas car, a Fiat — and a mini-house for him and his wife and his two daughters for one week was $1,200 — plus $200 a day for the car rental,” he said.Gradek recommends classic Canadian getaways this summer. “Go to Banff, go to the Rockies, go visit Peggy’s Cove.”
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