Southwest Pricing

[tinkerdee]

For our upcoming trip in August, I have put off booking our return airfare home (maybe because we never want to leave Disney) because it is $197pp. It is not listed as a web only price, the early morning flights are slightly lower and listed at web only. I have seen them lower the web only prices, but have never booked a regular wanna get away fare. Does that mean they will never go down, or are they almost booked to capacity already? I keep hesitating to book, $197 was our RT price we budgeted, not one way and I keep hoping it will drop. Do you think I have any hope? What would you all do?

 

[dacky041208]

I'm in the same boat, I've already booked our flight to MCO (end of July), but our return in early August has been a bit more expensive. The prices have been bouncing around a bit recently, and August is still 4 months away. I'm comfortable waiting until about 2-3 months out, so I'll be watching for another few weeks here. But now it is to the point that I don't expect to get the same price to fly home that I got for our tickets to MCO.

 

[tinkerdee]

I too have come to realize that we won't get the $109 flight home that we got for the way down, but I hope I didn't mess up by not booking the second they came out on 3/23 when it was $178. It lasted at that price for less than an hour. At this point I would be thrilled with $150. I even looked at the other airlines and Delta out of Hartford CT for 8/15 was a little less, but when I add in the baggage fees it is back up to $200. I might as well wait, I like the times with SW better. Thanks for letting me know I am not alone!!