Help With August 2012 NEW YORK Flights

[Melcatfish]

Hi Guys,

I know that most of you are planning WDW trips but I was hoping to tap into the wealth of knowledge on here about flight booking. I used to be a trip planning regular but hang out mostly on the cruise board now as we are slightly addicted to DCL!

We have a Disney Cruise booked out of New York next August and I am getting a little wound up working out what to do about flights.

The general rule always used to seem to be book on the day they come out for best price but now I see more about flight sales and price drops - my friend just flew to Tokyo and had been watching flight prices and they dropped by £200 each recently so she booked and made a good saving.

My question is really what do you flight experts think is the best strategy? Also what would you predict would be the likely best price I might get on 5 flights (3 adults 2 kids) in economy return from any London airport to any New York airport in August (cruise leaves on the 5th so I want to fly on the 4th and return on the 15th) Not bothered massively about the airline - I have Virgin flying club points (enough to do M+M but I am not sure if these are likely to come up or be worth it in the school holidays)

Hope someone can help \ offer any comments.
Mel
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[Melcatfish]

anyone?

Mel
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[sandshal]

Just done that same thing. Flew out on the 24th July returning 13th aug. Flew with VA and used miles so 2 x PE flights £500 ........ If you haven't got enough miles to pay in full though there was m&m flights from 11 months out until more or less departure day. Hope this helps

 

[Melcatfish]

Thanks for the reply. I only have enough miles to do miles plus money not pay in full. Much as I would like to go PE we will happily go economy but I wanted to get the flights for under £600 each (with 5 of us going that is already a fair whack out of our holiday budget!) so I guess I might have to look elsewhere other than Virgin and hope for a sale too....

Thanks again for taking time to reply,
Mel
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