Flights to Cancun
 

We are traveling out of Philadelphia in October.

When we booked our trip to Secrets Capri, the flights from Philly with 1 stop were at $300. I felt that was a bit high for hurricane season in Mexico:-)

From your experience, what is a reasonable price for a roundtrip flight to Mexico for one with 1 lay over?

I ask because they only seem to be going up and I don't know whether to book it now or wait until later in August when summer slows down to see if prices go down.

TIA!

Far be it from me to tell you to book this and then have you find a lower fare down the road, but I think $300 RT sounds pretty reasonable, with or without a change of planes. If it were me, I'd grab it. Airfares are high these days, what with oil prices being what they are.

Thank you!I know it is hard to say with flights but I wanted to get other opinions:-)

That's a toughie...October is very low-season, along with hurricane season.

$300 seems fair to me.
Have you looked into charter service that may be available from Philly? Usually it's direct and you can buy flight only.

It's a gamble, as time nears your date and if there are empty seats, you may get a better deal. I'd hate to gamble if you already have a hotel with specific dates booked.

I don't think the airlines probably pay much attention to the fact that it is hurricane season, per se, in setting their prices. I mean even in an amazing year like last year, when 2 hit this region, one of them only affected flights for a few days, and the other massive one really only affected flights for a couple of weeks (though some particular airlines seemed to be masking some cost-saving steps with stories of the airport being impossible to use for a much longer period, even while others -- notably AA -- brought in multiple flights daily within just a week or so of the storm). Especially given that the airlines mostly probably just gave people tickets to somewhere else not affected by the storm during those relatively periods, and that in terms of quantity, all other travel dates during even that terrible season were still fine, I don't think it would be logical for them to lower prices due to the possibility of hurricanes, myself.

Steve