Booking Airline Tickets

[BluesTraveler]

We need to book our airline tickets for our Alaska trip next summer. I assume the best way is to book through ABD (we are not using miles), but thought I'd post here to see if others agree or disagree?

 

[sayhello]

It does end up being easiest on the rare chance that ABD cancels your trip and you need to move to a different departure. The thing is, you can either let them find flights for you, or you can do the research and ask them to book exactly the flights you want. They act like any Travel Agent. They don't have group rates or discounts or anything of that nature. It's not like booking your airfare through DCL, where you get whatever they give you unless you pay extra. I like that. There's not much of a downside to using ABD.

Sayhello

 

[TXTransplant]

I second everything Sayhello said. We did our first ABD this past June and wound up booking our tickets through ABD (via our affiliated TA). I wasn't intending to do this, but it worked out for the best. And she booked the exact seats I wanted for the same price that I would have paid had I booked them myself. The charge for the tickets will show up on your cc as a Disney Vacations charge (or something like that), not an airline charge. I will be booking our tickets for our 2016 trip the same way.

An interesting note about our trip...the lowest price of the ticket actually coincided closely with our PIF date. I checked ticket prices almost every single day for months and months. There would have been no advantage for us to have booked this far out. I wound up buying the tickets about a week or two before I made the final payment for the trip. The ticket price didn't drop any further after that.

 

[BluesTraveler]

Thanks to you both. We wanted to book early because we are flying FC, and there are limited flights/seats. I went through ABD.