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Old May 23rd, 2007 | 01:17 PM
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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.
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Old May 23rd, 2007 | 01:29 PM
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Have you checked Southwest? this airline don't post on Orbitz and such.
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Old May 23rd, 2007 | 01:37 PM
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Never mind, for June 29 the price is too high.
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Old May 23rd, 2007 | 01:50 PM
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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.
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Old May 23rd, 2007 | 01:58 PM
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Great idea!! I'm going to check into it.Thanks.
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Old May 23rd, 2007 | 02:01 PM
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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.

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Old May 23rd, 2007 | 02:27 PM
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the www.yapta.com suggestion by Gardyloo 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 "no fares available" 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.
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