Book now or wait - Southwest?

[momofmikey]

Ugh! I can book SWA out of Long Island Macarthur right now for $79 each way. We're going the week of October 22. I'm so torn if I should book now, or take a chance and wait to see if they extend those great $49 fares that go through end of September. Anyone in a similar position, and if yes, what are you doing?

Thank you!

 

[JediMaster]

just got song tixs for $59 each way! LGA airport

 

[momofmikey]

Great! I saw that too. I may jump on that offer, but I'd prefer Islip just b/c it's closer.

 

[fterie4u]

That is what we are doing also. We are going the end of October and are hoping for $49 flights. I have not even seen $79 flights for our dates for both ways, I have only seen it for one day, even when playiong around with days. AAAAhhhh!!! I am going to give it until September and see what happens.

Erin aw:

 

[Lewisc]

Anything under $200 R/T is a GOOD FARE. If you can get the flights you want out of ISP I'd book it and hope for the possibility of a future credit.

Are you more worried about the price? Willing to change airports? Fly out LGA or JFK? Fly into Tampa and rent a car? Then you might wait and see what Song, Jet Blue and SW offers.

 

[DutchsMommy]

ITA with Lewisc. Alot of people have managed to get the actual $$ back on their CC if the price drops and if not then you have the credit. To me 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'. I would rather book now and hope for a better deal instead of wait and potentially miss out if the rates go up. I would be kicking myself if that happened!

 

[byoung]

Book Southwest now,if fares go down call them they will give you a credit.

 

[pirateparrot]

Book Southwest now,if fares go down call them they will give you a credit.

You can use the credit anytime within 1 year or you can give it to someone else to use if you are not traveling within the year.

 

[lacy1101]

I am in the same boat - hoping for the $39 fare out of Nashville for our dates. They have offered it for the last 3+ weeks now for travel completed by 09/29/05. We fly out on 09/30/05.

I have posted similar messages on these boards over the last few weeks. Some have told me to hold out with Southwest until next Tuesday's email, 08/09/05. Not sure why, but that's what I'm going to do. Maybe the dates will be extended! Pixie dust to you!

 

[lessernobleman]

My advice with Southwest is to book as early as you can at the lowest rate you can afford, if you don't mind taking a credit toward future flights... After that, ***check early and check often for changes and specials!!!!!*** Subscribe to the e-mail updates and get Ding! We booked our flight for our August 14 trip in early June (leaving from Albany.)

Since then, I've rebooked five separate times at lower rates, and ended up with credit totaling about 60% of the original cost!! The original round trip cost for the four of us was about $1155 (which was about what I had originally budgeted for the flight when we first started planning.) We ended up with $656 in credit.

Looks like we'll be heading down again in February '06...