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Re: Too Early To book flights for May
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01/09/2015 10:13 PM
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Yesterday Delta had a non stop flight roundtrip, from JFK for $429 departing on a Wednesday in late October.
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Re: Too Early To book flights for May
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01/10/2015 07:35 AM
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gd1147 said: Wow, I had no idea that $500 was a steal. When you regularly fly from the large cities on the East coast, you usually don't have a perception as to what others pay. Many people face $700-$1000 airfare with at least one connection and sometimes two. The general rule of thumb, when air gets to a price you can live with, buy it and don't look back.
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Re: Too Early To book flights for May
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01/10/2015 08:59 AM
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I would wait since there are quite a few seats left on those Saturday flights with most of the "Economy Plus" seats empty.
I have gotten into the habit of checking one way fares since a lot of the time one leg is the culprit. If the price is low I grab one leg. I then just have half to worry about.
For example I checked May 16th/23rd for fares and it was $583 for the n/s r/t..but..it was $207 for the EWR-SXM leg. I would grab that in a heartbeat and cut my needs in half.
I did the same for my SXM trip starting this Sunday...booked the return n/s 1st when it was cheap...and then booked the SJU connection down when the fare dropped a tad.
I should also add that the n/s flights "disappeared" when I returned for a 3rd time in 10 minutes to check seats...so not seeing a flight doesn't mean it's not there...restart your computer or clear your cache/history and they will magically reappear.
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Re: Too Early To book flights for May
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01/10/2015 09:26 AM
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I bought tickets several months ago for May, United EWR/SXM RT, $422.50 p/p. However when I purchased, it was for flying down on Monday the 4th, returning Thursday the 14th. A few weeks later the Thursday return was cancelled, as usual with NO notice from them. I managed to get us on the Saturday the 16th later flight, which was listed as a lot more expensive with no additional fare on my part. As Boucharda says, the flights are pretty wide open, so I'd imagine fares my come down. But it's always a crapshoot.
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Re: Too Early To book flights for May
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01/10/2015 10:21 AM
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It depends on where you're flying from. The NY area is by far the cheapest place to fly to SXM from.
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Re: Too Early To book flights for May
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01/10/2015 05:05 PM
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boucharda said: I have gotten into the habit of checking one way fares since a lot of the time one leg is the culprit. If the price is low I grab one leg. I then just have half to worry about.
For example I checked May 16th/23rd for fares and it was $583 for the n/s r/t..but..it was $207 for the EWR-SXM leg. I would grab that in a heartbeat and cut my needs in half.
I did the same for my SXM trip starting this Sunday...booked the return n/s 1st when it was cheap...and then booked the SJU connection down when the fare dropped a tad.
I think this is a very good tip, I started doing the same 2 years ago since there is little or no RT discount when flying to SXM. It has saved me some nice money that last several trips. The other trick I do, I look FF ticket legs separately, if I find one of the legs cheap, I use FF miles for one leg, purchase the others.
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Re: Too Early To book flights for May
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01/11/2015 10:17 AM
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gd1147 said: Same thing here with UA being the airline of choice for FF program reasons. Oddly enough the price has changed every day since I posted this question for my desired trip. Was $500, then $525 then $580, back down to $521 today. I wish there was a way to understand this madness! Prices for air, hotels, and rental cars can change by the minute, not just the day. There is no way to understand it but it does pay to check often. Like I said, when it gets to a price you can live with, BOOK IT!
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Re: Too Early To book flights for May
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01/12/2015 08:16 PM
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gd1147 said: People actually buy first class tickets??? Exactly...I thought they were ALL bought with FF miles
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Re: Too Early To book flights for May
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01/13/2015 09:11 AM
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Yes, you did well. I would say the average price on those flights is maybe $600.
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Re: Too Early To book flights for May
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01/13/2015 10:18 AM
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SXM is much more expensive than STT. For one thing, there are approximately $100 in taxes on a SXM ticket. And for the DC area, the only nonstop is that United flight, so especially for that United flight, they can get a big price for it.
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Re: Too Early To book flights for May
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01/14/2015 05:31 PM
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boucharda said:
I have gotten into the habit of checking one way fares since a lot of the time one leg is the culprit. If the price is low I grab one leg. I then just have half to worry about.
I've always thought that booking two one-way fares was *always* more expensive than one round trip but, based on this thread, I just got converted. I couldn't find the combination of legs that I wanted for my trip from BOS to SXM coming up in June. I could get a R/T down via MIA and back through CLT, or vice versa but I could not get a flight via CLT both ways. I still don't understand why but I ended up booking two one-ways via CLT and saved about $50 in total for the two of us to boot. Thanks for giving me the kick to do this!
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Re: Too Early To book flights for May
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01/14/2015 06:58 PM
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Booking a return(both going and returning) fare always used to be less expensive, but now they break the fare down into two different segments, so this is no longer the case. For some reason the fare to return home always seems to be more expensive. I guess they figure since you eventually have to get back home, you have no choice but to pay what they ask! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Too Early To book flights for May
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01/14/2015 07:02 PM
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Actually, I THINK the reason why the return is more is that you have the SXM departure tax in there.
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