IAH to MCO NonStop: Buy Now??

[DemonLlama]

WAAYYY back in 2000 I got a great fare round trip (one stopover) tixs for our family of four from Houston (IAH) to MCO ($600 total). We got bumped to a Continental nonstop on the way there and loved it, especiailly compared to the trip home when we all got sick from a very bumpy ride on NW.

In 2002 I got greedy and waited and waited and waited for a cheap fare and ended up having to fork over $1300 for a one stopover flight. (This was American -- great service, liked the leg room)

So, having ONLY bought airfare in the past four years for the two above flights, should I buy the nonstop Continental flight at the right times for the four of us now for December, or should I still give it a little longer? The four roundtrip nonstop tix will be a total of $1008.80.

I just don't buy airfare enough to know.

I know there is no crystal ball, but what would you do?

 

[dpayne1969]

I would say wait a little longer this seems high to me.I would wait till May or you could go for it now and then if it goes down they would issue a voucher,but as far as money wise i would wait but this is just my opinion.There are tons of experts on these boards that fly pretty frequently that could give you their advice!

 

[LIFERBABE]

and $1008 seems high to me also. Thats over $250 each. I keep IAH on my farewatcher in case they have some awesome deal for my girlfriend who lives in Houston.

We fly out of DFW and for our June 2004 trip our 4 tickets on RT AA nonstop came to $719.82. I purchased thru Cititravel (citibank credit card travel club) The same flights average $208 on travelocity.

I would put both HOU and IAH on your travelocity farewatcher and give it a little more time. I've seen some pretty good fares out of Houston, even more so than DFW because they don't have the Wright Amendment.