Airline Ticket Prices
 

We're trying to buy tickets from Little Rock or Memphis to Portland June 29-July 7. I've found some for $375. In the past, we've paid about $250/ticket, but I know that gas prices have increase, etc so I know they are going to be more. Does this price seem reasonable? I've tried about every site I know...travelocity.com, cheapseats.com, kayak.com, expedia. They are actually about $10 cheaper directly through Delta. Should I go ahead and get this tickets or do you think it's possible that the price could go down? I'm just scared I'll buy them and then next week they go down $100 or something.
Thanks.

Have you checked Southwest? this airline don't post on Orbitz and such.

Never mind, for June 29 the price is too high.

Two suggestions.

1. Buy now; as a general rule prices tend to up as you get closer to flight date.

2. Subscribe to a brand new flight price monitoring service, Yapta - www.yapta.com - which will send you a notification if the price of your flights has gone down (even if you've paid for the tickets) so that you can get a refund or voucher for the difference from the airline.

Great idea!! I'm going to check into it.Thanks.

Prices are up for this summer's flights.

There is no way to predict if the airlines will be able to hold to them, but for several weeks I have been seeing 50 - 100% higher than I am used to for flights in June and July.

Keith

the www.yapta.com suggestion by <b>Gardyloo</b> for a domestic ticket is not all that.

Many of the domestic airlines have re-ticketing fees ranging between $25 and all the way up to $100 before they issue a voucher or a refund for the difference.

I doubt very much the prices will drop by more than $50 if that for your flights, so more likely than not it's a wasted cause.

btw, the yapta site is still in beta testing mode and when I tried to see what they can show me for an AA flight to Shanghai in September, which btw came back with ~$1500 on www.aa.com, the yapta site came back with &quot;no fares available&quot; even though I gave them the exact same flights info.

I would not count on this site for at least couple of more months. After all it just came on line today.