I got in on the $80 fares. I've been stalking the websites daily for a good 2 months now. There was the odd price fluctuation but not on the flights that I wanted. Funny, with the latest sale it was only showing the $80 fares for our southbound flight and nothing at all for the week we returned. Well, lucky for me I checked on the last day of the sale before I started work in the morning....there it was my preferred flight for $80. So of course I booked but in the span of 15 minutes I lost out on the flight that was my first pick, I got my second which is only a difference of 3 hours. I guess I should explain that I lost out on my 1st pick because I called my DH first just to confirm that he had in fact booked his vacation dates....he's known to say he has when in fact he had mentioned it at work but not officially booked.
On the point for good prices we often travel to WDW the last 2 weeks of August and I always end up booking the flights mid June. I have, so far, always gotten the best price. We fly from Buffalo and like to have non stop flights. This will be the first time that we did not get totally non stop....on our flight to MCO we make a stop but do not get off the plane. Coming home it's a non stop.