This is good to know as most of my trips lately are not exactly planned and just book. There is talk of a flight tax coming in the next year or so and it rises with every flight after your third flight. So a return trip is fine but the second return trip will have tax on the 4th plane trip which is your return journey. Every flight thereafter has an extra increasing tax all for the nonsense of climate control.
RE: The "sweet spot" for booking flights early is 38 days