Fare terrain — long-haul date planner · Toolkit →
Airfare isn't a smooth curve — it's cliffs. Public holidays at both ends of a route stack on top of each other and double the price of an identical seat. Enter your route and rough dates; this maps the cliffs, ranks the nearby days, and hands you live fare links for each one.
A normal, off-peak round trip on this route. Look it up once — everything below scales from it.
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Rows marked live are cached real prices for those exact dates, summed across both one-way legs. Rows marked modelled are your baseline fare multiplied by holiday pressure — they show you which days to check first, not what a seat costs. The links go to live prices.
Buying the short hop and the long haul separately is often cheaper — until you misconnect and nobody owes you a thing. This prices that risk.
Redeem below the program's baseline value and you've spent points to save less than they're worth. Pay cash instead and keep them.
Long-haul economy prices best 3–4 months out. Peak-season dates want more runway than that.