Soooooooooo glad I bought plane tickets last week!

[soarinup]

Out of curiosity, I checked the cost of my flight today, it went up by 200 dollars per ticket! Now, I could pick another time, and the price would be only 11 dollars higher, but WOW!My vacation is in Sept

 

[Gary Pinkos]

I have a family of 5 and have been watching the prices on Southwest rise every week. I kept waiting because I was I was so close to a free flight, and made enough purchases on credit card to put us over the top for a that flight, but needed to wait for the new statement. So today.......by luck I stumbled on a better deal (Airtran) in a closer (and less costly for parking) airport ABE. Without the "free flight" I spent about $100.00 less plus whatever I save for parking at PHL. So I am glad I waited.......with the price of fuel going up every day I was just getting very anxious! We were thinking about driving from PA......made that drive many times in years past.....but I would rather spend my precious vacation time in Disneyworld!

Gary Pinkos

 

[Darcy03231]

I bought my tickets last month for my end of May/beginning of June trip. Going out of Boston at $84 each way. Same flights are now are now $214 each way!

 

[keishashadow]

I'll join the support group

recap/rewhine/i waited to buy 2 seats over the weekend when libya issue arose. Checked again Monday am, rates were stable, Bing said to wait & i was due AT CC vouchers which are late as usual. Decided to book a few hours later & found the RT fare went up $100 pp on SWA, time to pull the trigger.

So annoyed though that total cost for 2 pp was more than i had paid for 3 same dates last year (end of July, weekend travel).

It's all relative though, appears i've gotten a 'bargin' afterall same 2 flights on SWA up in dribs & drabs all week another $120 and comparable AirTran flights are now $300 more than what i paid for my seats on SWA. Note: i checked the seat availability on AT and very few spoken for either

imo they are testing the market. Im still holding out for sale prices 2 months out on SWAto try & rebook & have credit in hand for later travel this year.

 

[Gary Pinkos]

I was reading another post earlier and it seems Airtran has baggage issues, even though I will be paying for them......can't win it seems?

Gary Pinkos

 

[keishashadow]

I was reading another post earlier and it seems Airtran has baggage issues, even though I will be paying for them......can't win it seems?

Gary Pinkos

my experience w/AT over the years is that they do have issues - flight changes/equipment gate cancellations/mishandled & lost luggage - but after hearing me out, they have always made it right for me (i.e. compensation)unlike what i've experienced w/SWA's customer service program.

I understand that they need to turn a profit and it's their call as to luggage policies. jmho if they decide to change the luggage size/weight requirments and they're really not trying to 'catch' anybody off guard, they really should be more pro-active as to advisement/including a prominent disclaimer on the website.

 

[KBoopaloo]

I am also celebrating buying our plane tickets about 10 days ago - our same flights on JetBlue have steadily gone up. They are now nearly $300 more per person than when we purchased.

 

[soarinup]

I am also celebrating buying our plane tickets about 10 days ago - our same flights on JetBlue have steadily gone up. They are now nearly $300 more per person than when we purchased.

HOLY SMOKE!

 

[jacdolfin]

I am also celebrating buying our plane tickets on Friday (2 days ago) - our same flights on Allegiant have steadily gone up. We booked 4 roundtip tickets for $900 they are now nearly $100 more per person than when we purchased. Glad we booked early its steadily going up.

 

[mikegood2]

We bought ours 2 weeks ago, for a June trip and are glad we did. We we watching for deals because my brother had a free ticket on American, and were hoping they would drop. Thought we would end up on AirTran because they were the best deal, by $80 a ticket, for about a month, but for one day United dropped their prices as much as half ($156). We ended up getting round trip from Chicago for $182 a ticket.

When I checked last week they are now over $400 and AirTran is over $300.

 

[gortman65]

Similar story here. We made a quick decision last week to surprise our soon-to-be 5 year old DD with a birthday trip to WDW in early April. For the three of us, it was about $400 more than we paid last year in May but we had some SW ticketless travel funds to use so it wasn't too bad.

For the heck of it I checked this morning, and the same trip would cost almost $200 more per person if we booked today instead of last week. Whew!

 

[sharona]

Changed my flight times on Thursday when I saw a price drop on JB. New flights cost $310pp rt. Today same flights are $796pp rt.

Now, you could opt for different flight times and still travel on the same days for $254pp rt. but you would be arriving at 11pm and leaving at 7am so losing 2 days of vacation! Of course you can always fly in late the night before to get the cheaper airfare and stay at a value for $90/night.

Anyway, I was told by a frequent traveler never to book anything on a weekend (Fri - Mon). it will be interesting to see what happens to prices later this week.

 

[bjscheel]

Me too, actually I bought about a month ago at $198 R/T. Shortly after they started going up. Lately the same flights were at $600 and change- triple the cost! Granted, one plane is almost full, but among all the possible flights on United those dates, the cheapest was $514.

I can still find Continental for under $300 (barely) and maybe some reasonable flights on AT if we wanted to drive 3 hours to airport.

As a side note, I did price out Continental for kicks the other day and was just floored when I got the option to upgrade to First Class for only $5604. That would have to be some awfully nice FC.

 

[1tufgt]

I would of bought tickets already with the way they seem to be going if the booking window for southwest was open for oct.

Now news reports that sw has raised rates $10 across the board.

Don't think I will be able to get the $74 each way I got last summer.

 

[MinnieVanMom]

We had been watching our JAC to CDG flight with a day or two on either side of our late Sept. dates. It opened around $900 and watched the flight climb up to $1400. I told DH to wait. Two weeks ago Tuesday I check Delta once again and our flight was at the $896. I texted, called, cell, work phone and didn't let up till DH told me he had our tickets. We saved $1K by just waiting and checking several times a day.

Sorry not Disney but a great savings.

 

[keishashadow]

I would of bought tickets already with the way they seem to be going if the booking window for southwest was open for oct.

Now news reports that sw has raised rates $10 across the board.

Don't think I will be able to get the $74 each way I got last summer.

im impatiently waiting for AT CC reward email to appear in my inbox, so im monitoring flights in Oct

funny thing is the $350 RT seems downright cheap compared to the current summer fares of near $1000 pp RT, despite it being almost $150 more pp than what i paid last year.

maybe they're setting the bar high to hedge their bets, then will eventually reduce the prices back to slightly above the norm, if sales are down