Advice sought about airline faires

I have fought this battle about twice a year for the past 8-10 years.
My solution is to constantly check fares.use sidestep,hotwire,and any
of those other price searching tools. I bought tickets two weeks ago
to Brussels and two days later they were $300 higher and since then
they have dropped so just be patient. Most likely you will find
something you can afford sooner or later.
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me wrote:
> On Feb 20, 12:21 am, wrote:
>> Just a week ago, my girlfriend found a flight from LA to Rome in late
>> July/early August for under $700. Just a week before that, I found
>> flights from LA to Rome at the same time for about $725. I thought
>> that these were great prices and knew that I had to buy soon. I got
>> my taxes done yesterday (I had to know how much my refund would be
>> before buying airline tix) and then looked on travelocity to find that
>> the flight faires from LAX to Rome for July/August had literally
>> doubled! The lowest faire was $1,344 via United -- I have never seen
>> faires that high in my entire life.
>>
>> Now with summer approaching, will airline tickets continue to soar or
>> should I bide my time and wait for prices to hopefully tumble back to
>> a reasonable price. Thanks for your expert advice.
>
>
> No. Barring some unusual international event or economic
> collapse, airfares will generally continue to rise. People are
> booking
> their summer trips about now and will continue to do so into
> the spring. If you don't do it soon, it will be unlikely that the
> fares will
> fall between now and July.
>

Hi,

travelocity.com has a thing called "farewatcher" that will monitor fares
for you.


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Hackamore
http://www.hackamore.com
http://hackamoretravel.blogspot.com
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wrote in message

> Just a week ago, my girlfriend found a flight from LA to Rome in late
> July/early August for under $700. Just a week before that, I found
> flights from LA to Rome at the same time for about $725. I thought
> that these were great prices and knew that I had to buy soon. I got
> my taxes done yesterday (I had to know how much my refund would be
> before buying airline tix) and then looked on travelocity to find that
> the flight faires from LAX to Rome for July/August had literally
> doubled! The lowest faire was $1,344 via United -- I have never seen
> faires that high in my entire life.
>
> Now with summer approaching, will airline tickets continue to soar or
> should I bide my time and wait for prices to hopefully tumble back to
> a reasonable price. Thanks for your expert advice.

Mate, tt's a lottery. You want to travel to Europe at the same time as
everyone else in North America... basically, the only advice I can give you
is - if you see a fare you are happy to pay, book it there and then.
Someone else on the plane will *always* have paid less than you, and someone
else will always have paid more, to sit in the same seat... I would say that
$700 sounds like good value and I would snap that up if you see it again
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In rec.travel.europe wrote:
> Just a week ago, my girlfriend found a flight from LA to Rome in late
> July/early August for under $700. Just a week before that, I found
> flights from LA to Rome at the same time for about $725. I thought
> that these were great prices and knew that I had to buy soon. I got
> my taxes done yesterday (I had to know how much my refund would be
> before buying airline tix) and then looked on travelocity to find that
> the flight faires from LAX to Rome for July/August had literally
> doubled! The lowest faire was $1,344 via United -- I have never seen
> faires that high in my entire life.

What airline is your g/f flying on? Did she find her prices on
Travelocity too?

If you are considering flying on any IATA-member airline (like United),
which comprises the bulk of transatlantic travel, you are wasting your
time looking for deals on any website. Avoid even the airlines' own
websites. You need to go to a consolidator travel agent to the best
fare on a regular airline.

List of IATA-member airlines:
http://www.iata.org/membership/airline_members_list?All=true

See if charter flights are available from your area, and also check if
any non-IATA member discount airlines have suitable routes. For these,
you can usually find the best deal on their airline's website.

I'll echo what the others are saying. Start looking now. Everything
affordable for this summer will be sold out soon.

--
K.

Lang may your lum reek.
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I wonder what an airline faire would be like. Where would they hold it?
In a gathering of tents, each staffed by people selling shares in
airlines?

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo 
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On Feb 21, 1:43 pm, erilar wrote:
> I wonder what an airline faire would be like.  Where would they hold it?  
> In a gathering of tents, each staffed by people selling shares in
> airlines?
>
> --
> Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)
>
> You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
> that reason doesn't count.     --Isaac Asimov
>
> Erilar's Cave Annex:http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo 

Ha/ha! I usually never dare to misspell anything but I got lazy
because I was rushing. You guys just have too much time on your
hands. And you're not very fair either.
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"erilar" wrote in message

>I wonder what an airline faire would be like. Where would they hold it?
> In a gathering of tents, each staffed by people selling shares in
> airlines?
>

In the spirit of RenFaire, I would expect vastly overweight people spilling
out of ill-fitting and inauthentic pilot and flight attendant costumes
gathered around a stall selling the worst of inflight food

Cheers,
George W Russell
Bangalore
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Hi. I have something that may ease that burden just a little. If you go to http://www.ytbtravel.com/curtisdscott you can find airline prices are generally cheaper than anyplace else. The cheapest I have seen. Hope this helps!
 >> Stay informed about: Advice sought about airline faires 

Hi. I have something that may ease that burden just a little. If you go to http://www.ytbtravel.com/curtisdscott you can find airline prices are generally cheaper than anyplace else. The cheapest I have seen. Hope this helps!
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