Help....when to book December flight

[Latel]

I am trying to decide whether to book my flight now for December or wait until nearer the time to see if I can get a cheaper flight. I am a bit nervous waiting until too close just in case they all get booked up. The prices are about £500 each at the moment and I am wondering if they will go down. I want to go on December 27th or 28th and come back on January 6th or 7th.
What would you do????

 

[disney_princess_85]

Personally, I would book now. £500 for that time of year is quite reasonable.

 

[torsie24]

I'd book now too.

£500 sounds pretty good for during school holidays.

Have a check on the virgin sale, but we would've paid £480 for March if we were in Economy, so £500 sounds very good for Xmas time.

 

[T16GEM]

I think I would book too, the prices for that time of year are always pretty high!

 

[wayneg]

Is that indirect? Looked at Virgin they want around £700.
Unfortunately flights don't get a lot cheaper than £500 in school hols anymore, although you dates run just into the new term(for our area, maybe still hols elswhere) so you could possibly pick up something cheaper.
Basically its a gamble, If the flight times & airports are exactly what I want I would be very tempted at £500, if bad times or not a local airport then I might be tempted to wait.

 

[gemmybear83]

I would also book them now - especially with the Virgin Atlantic sale now on.

We paid £407 Virgin economy return with miles and money when the flights were released at 11 months. Were flying on a saturday, and their are two virgin flights from Manchester and ours is looking pretty full in economy

 

[Chilly]

We booked last year when they first came out to fly last Christmas Day, we paid £500 direct with Virgin. So i'd be happy with £500 this year.

 

[Latel]

Well, I've taken your advise and I'm all booked. Luckily, I asked a friend who works for BA to see if she could get any good flight prices and she managed to get me flights for £396 woo hoo!!! we snapped it up!
So, now on with the planning.......
Although, I have never flown with BA before and the fact that they are always striking lately is making me a bit nervous.

 

[wayneg]

Well done, that is a fantastic price. Happy planning.

 

[Rocket2405]

We booked with Virgin last week for just over £400 for December. BA and Virgin prices have just come down in the last week or so (at last!).

 

[wayneg]

We booked with Virgin last week for just over £400 for December. BA and Virgin prices have just come down in the last week or so (at last!).

Welcome to DISboards
Another great price. Dates we would want 25th Dec~1st Jan are £1008pp in economy, doubt we will be going this December.