Flying During School Breaks Without Overpaying

School breaks are the most expensive weeks of the year to fly, and every family in San Diego is looking at the same dates.\n\nThe biggest lever is shifting by two or three days. Leaving the Saturday before the break instead of the Friday it starts, or returning a Tuesday instead of the final Sunday, routinely cuts 20 to 30 percent. Those two travel days are where all the demand piles up.\n\nThe second lever is booking earlier than you would for a normal trip. Break weeks do not go on sale. They only go up.\n\nThe third is being open on destination. If Hawaii is $700 per person that week and Cabo is $260, the trip everyone remembers is the one you actually took.