Plane ticket prices - xmas week

[BOST99]

We are looking to do a trip Dec 26 - 30/31st and starting to price around.

Any advice on what we should expect for flight prices? 4 people flying from New England (2 adults, 2 kids)

Delta is currently at $2500 and if that is about average we will probably skip this trip. Waiting on SWA.

 

[sam_gordon]

We are looking to do a trip Dec 26 - 30/31st and starting to price around.

Any advice on what we should expect for flight prices? 4 people flying from New England (2 adults, 2 kids)

Delta is currently at $2500 and if that is about average we will probably skip this trip. Waiting on SWA.

From our smaller airport in Ky, it's usually ~$300-$350pp. But I can get sub $250pp if we go to Cincinnati or Louisville.

I suggest comparing PP prices. Take into account baggage fees and seat assignment fees (if any). Also look at nearby airports. According to your signature, you've had a number of trips, do you have any records of what those have cost? That should give you a baseline.

 

[sponica]

If you can fly out on the actual holiday, it might be slightly cheaper.

 

[siren0119]

We fly out of Boston, and came to the realization that if we want to go down to WDW over any major holidays/breaks, we'll be driving. I can't justify ponying up $300-500 per ticket when I know I can fly for half that any other time of year!

 

[nmrgrl55]

I don't know what the price will be, but check the prices often. I am flying out of Bos to MCO July 12th and had been checking daily. The prices had (have) been high and I was willing to drive. A few weeks ago I checked and was Delta down to $211 nonstop. It has mostly hovered around $290 since then, but it has gone down to $260 a couple of times and as high as $390. Also, check SW when they release the dates. We had originally planned for late August but had to reschedule. I checked SW just for fun (to torture myself since I hadn't been able to get July flights yet) and they were super cheap. We could fly out of Boston for less than $200. They have gone up a ton since then. I also checked Manchester and Portland (we are in Maine), but Boston was consistently "cheaper." I know Christmas time will be different since it is the holidays, but I suggest checking every day since you might find a good price.

 

[Darcy03231]

We live in NE and the cheapest we've ever paid for that week was $475/pp, and that was about 10 years ago, and we flew down on Christmas Day and back on 1/3. I've priced out travel during that week both for WDW and cruises and the prices are nuts, which is why we've only traveled then a couple of times.

 

[BOST99]

I can't justify ponying up $300-500 per ticket when I know I can fly for half that any other time of year!

That's my problem. I understand demand is up for xmas vacations but I cant justify spending $500 each when we could spend half that in the spring/summer (defeats the purpose of escaping the weather here though...) was hoping that Delta was an outlier

Thanks for the feedback everyone!