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6. Often varying the day you leave or return by a day or two has vary good results as far as lowering the price. I ve found Tuesdays are usually a cheap priced day to travel on weekends tend to be higher priced. Along these same lines consider searching for your tickets on Saturday mornings. I can t confirm this but have read in several sources that some airlines release low unadvertised fares on Saturday mornings.