Virgin & BA flights

[ChristieK0310]

Hi,

we are hopefully going back to disney 1 - 15 Oct 08 if I can convince DH lol! We have bought into DVC so I am thinking of changing a RCL cruise holiday to the canaries that i have booked for October to the caribbean and doing a stay either side of it.

In your experience am I better to book now or wait and see if they have a sale and risk not getting seats? There will be 4 adults and a baby.

Virgin - £587.90
BA - £613.80

These are todays prices exit gatwick for the above dates. I am a really bad flyer so would rather stick to the larger carriers.

Any thoughts?

Christie

 

[UKDEB]

Once we've made up our minds we're going, we like to get the flights booked. On the odd occasion we have waited, we've never managed to get a bargain - in fact all we seemed to achieve was decreasing availability. Maybe we were just unlucky and someone with more experience of waiting it out will be able to give you some good news.

Not so long ago I'd have said those fares were on the expensive side, but with the surcharges and taxes seemingly on an upwards spiral, I would say they're not excessive.

 

[Netty]

Virgin have recently had a sale on which went up to the 31st october. I messed about and booked a day later where by then the fare had gone up £70. This is because they had sold that class of seat and so the next lot of seats were dearer.
all I can say to you is just to book now, as I have been looking for my sister and the fare in October has shot up since i have booked.

 

[nibbo]

Fuel surcharges are most likely going to continue increasing over the coming months so that's another consideration to take into account.