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Best Time of Day to Fly to Avoid Airport Delays: Data-Backed Insights

$8 bags of pretzels. A phone with no battery and nowhere to charge it. Precious vacation minutes wasted in an airport.

Airport delays are the worst.

With decades of collective travel experience, expert advice, and data from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), we always recommend the same strategy to friends and family for booking flights to minimize delays.

Source: Decision Science News and Bureau of Transportation Statistics


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