Many people attempt to save their sanity by avoiding flights on the worst travel days of the year, including the days around Thanksgiving. So when is the best time to purchase tickets for Thanksgiving and Christmas travel? According to 2024 travel trends, domestic airfares for travel around Thanksgiving hit their lowest ranges around 45 days before travel. Thanksgiving this year is on November 27, so early October is the sweet spot for snapping up flight reservations. "For airlines, it's a feast-time domestically and a famine-time internationally," says Scott Keyes, founder of the travel site Going.com, per the site's Thanksgiving Travel Guide.