RYANAIR - How Early To Buy Tickets?

[artnbarb]

I'm months away from our Dublin to Bucharest flight on RyanAir, and I'm wondering when's the optimal time to buy. I'm sure they get more expensive the later it gets, but is there a "sweet spot"? Or is it just luck to get the best price?

For some reason buying tickets on RyanAir just makes me anxious! I'm not their biggest fan, but they're the only non-stop to my destination and they know it.

 

[JMichael]

We flew RyanAir once from London to Dublin. They won't be seeing us again. I would happily fly KLM with a stop in AMS or Lufthansa with a stop in MUC. True, those two flights are 1.5 hours longer, but it would be worth it to us. Airhint.com shows the RyanAir prices initially high but starting to come down 20 weeks in advance. The sweet spot is somewhere between 20 and 10 weeks out. However, similar to other airlines, all of it depends on how many seats are sold. The more bookings received, the higher the price for any remaining seats. Good luck.

 

[Ian Sutton]

I've not flown for a while, so don't think I know optimal.

However you could look at the flights for months earlier in the year to see if there's a trend / check that airhint.com theory

FWIW I don't think it made much difference in the past when booking 3, 4, 5 or 6 months beforehand. They are cheap (albeit not as cheap as the advertised price), so reductions in the headline price aren't material, when measured against baggage etc. fees.

Knowing what you want / don't want to pay for in add-ons is the other game with them. As an aside to that, when I used to fly to/from Dublin, they always flew out of the same area of the airport, so I learnt to head straight there, rather than waiting in the big hall. That meant getting to the gate / queue faster, allowing me to get a space in the overhead lockers without paying for 'priority boarding'. This might still be true, so checking on line might be useful.