It is better to buy plane tickets for the New Year on January 7 and 8.
These days, tickets from Moscow and St. Petersburg are only 21-25% more expensive than usual, while on December 29 the overpayment reaches 86%, said the head of the online travel service Yevgeny Gartner. According to the expert, New Year's tickets from Moscow are usually 54% more expensive than on other days, and from St. Petersburg - 45%.
The return trip is the same: it is more profitable to return in the first days of January, the most expensive is January 8-10. So, from Sochi to Moscow on January 1 you can fly for 3,700 rubles, and on January 9 - for no less than 23,200 rubles.
Tips from an expert on how to save:
If you can move the date, look closely at December 31st and January 1st. In two thirds of the destinations, flights on these dates will cost less than on December 30. For example, a flight from St. Petersburg to Sochi on January 1 costs 14 thousand rubles compared to 19.6 thousand on December 29.
Look at prices not for a specific date, but for the whole week around: the adjacent days may change two to three times.
Consider the entire trip - there and back.