{"id":9890,"date":"2016-12-20T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megaphone.geeb.us\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2016-12-20T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T14:24:15","slug":"this-formula-tells-you-if-your-flight-is-a-good-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/?p=9890","title":{"rendered":"This Formula Tells You If Your Flight Is a Good Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Flights are getting cheaper<\/a> this year, but prices vary depending on your destination. To figure out whether a flight is actually a good deal, Luiz Maykot, a data science analyst for Adobe, came up with a simple formula.
\nThe formula is pretty straightforward: multiply the trip\u2019s round-trip miles by $0.032, then add $230.
\nAs MarketWatch explains, if you\u2019re flying between NYC and LA, that\u2019s 5,640 miles total. Plug that into the formula, and you get $410.48, which means anything below $410 (taxes and fees included) is a pretty good deal. For international flights, multiply the round-trip miles by $.08 and then add $200.
\nMaykot explains how he came up with the formula:<\/p>\n

I calculated the average price paid by everyone in the data sample, based on how many days in advance they purchased their tickets (up to 300 days in advance). Then, I divided the average price for each day by the overall average price and did this across thousands and thousands of flights. I was left with a weighted average of the final curve.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Put simply, the number you crunch gives you a general idea of what the majority of flight prices have been in recent years. MarketWatch explains the formula in a little more detail and also includes a calculator to help you do the math, so check out the full post at the link below.
\n2016 Travel Report: The Story Behind the Numbers<\/a> | Adobe via MarketWatch<\/a><\/small>
\nPhoto by rch850<\/a>.<\/em><\/small><\/em>
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Flights are getting cheaper this year, but prices vary depending on your destination. To figure out whether a flight is actually a good deal, Luiz Maykot, a data science analyst for Adobe, came up with a simple formula. The formula is pretty straightforward: multiply the trip\u2019s round-trip miles by $0.032, then add $230. As MarketWatch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36,13],"class_list":["post-9890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-feedly","tag-ifttt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}