Are flights cheaper on Friday the 13th?

Friday the 13th is more closely associated with black cats and horror films than it is cheap flights. read more

Flights to Gran Canaria, for example, fell from £63 to £36 for the 13th, it said – a drop of 44 per cent. The website carried out the same research in 2016, for flights on Friday, May 13, and found savings of as much as 41 per cent. read more

Deal hunter Alanna Smith from travel deal site TravelPirates took a look at TravelPirates' data to see if flying on Friday the 13th is actually cheaper than flying on any other day. Specifically, they looked at one-way flights from New York and Los Angeles to their 25 most popular destinations for April 2018. read more

Turns out the sentiment affects prices, too: In the U.S., Friday the 13th is the sixth cheapest day to fly in the month of June. And in the UK, this Friday is THE cheapest day to fly all month, with flights more than 85 dollars below the monthly average. read more