Flying on Fridays is now cheaper than mid-week
Finance
Modern airline algorithms are ditching decades of logic, as a sudden drop in weekend corporate travel creates a massive surplus of empty seats for Friday explorers.
For years, the gold standard for cheap travel was the Tuesday-Wednesday window, but a massive shift in how we work has flipped the calendar. Airline pricing engines now process ten billion queries daily and have spotted a new pattern: as business travelers rush home early, demand for flights actually plunges by 20 percent on Fridays. This creates a vacuum of inventory that airlines are desperate to fill, dropping prices below mid-week rates to lure leisure flyers.