Apparently the traditional wisdom is that tickets for international travel are the lowest around 90 days out. For ME, I can't wait that long, as it makes me too nervous. February is a long way away yet, so I wouldn't be in a big hurry to buy tickets. You can set up a Yapta (or other) price watcher program, to alert you when the price goes up or down by a certain amount, and follow the price for a while. When you see a price that you can live with, book it Danno! ...and then try not to look back, as you will just drive yourself crazy! You can look online for seats for the flights you want and see how many seats are left. Right now, and at those high prices, I would bet the flights are empty. Prices from the Northeast going to the Caribbean for winter are very high right now. Presumably they will go down at least briefly. The trick is to book when they do and then, as I said, don't look back!