Comments on: When Do Airlines Change Their Ticket Prices?

By: glorianne

glorianne — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:46:05 +0000

I purchased an american airlines flight on travelocity’s AARP passport for seniors. If the price lowers, can I change it directly with american? or do I have to pay the $100(or whatever).

By: Randy

Randy — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:54:22 +0000

Hi there

what’s the difference between an air fare that is calculated/based on a mileage system verus a route system?

How can we find out such info on tickets from the websites? Is there a code? Thanks

By: Sandy Fox

Sandy Fox — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:47:55 +0000

I am planning a trip to New York City May 23-May 31…I started shopping really early (before Christmas) but nothing was ever available in May and even now the lower prices have only gone up to May 20.
Since it is a holiday week, do I continue to wait or is this the best I’m going to get??
Thanks!

By: Rick Wiggers

Rick Wiggers — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:19:29 +0000

My wife and I are going to Australia in October. We want to travel business class. When is the best time to buy tickets for this trip?

By: jack jordan

jack jordan — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:08:01 +0000

I am trying to organize a group of 10 people to go to the Spoleto Festival in Charleston,S.C. 25 May-10 June 2008.
So far I have managed to get a group rate from a top hotel
there and am now trying to get a group discount from an airline.I am not in the travel or tourism industry but am doing this merely to get a inexpensive trip for myself.
Do you have any suggestions as to how I can get airline to give me a substantial discount for such a small group of peo[ple. ( I live in New York and the group would leave from and return to either JFK or Laguardia)

By: MIchael Saeli

MIchael Saeli — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:11:15 +0000

I wonder if airlines, knowing a flight probably won’t be sold out decide to lower their fares so many days before departure to try to avoid flying without empty seats? If they do so, how many days before departure should one look for a lower price on a given flight?

By: Jonathan Sternberg

Jonathan Sternberg — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:18:57 +0000

Are senior fares available on these cheap flights ?

I must go to Portland and Seattle within a 5-6 day period during the next 4 weeks and will buy one way fares. It appears cheaper than a round trip to either plus the fare between the two.. Which city should I go to first ?

Many thanks.

By: Rick Seaney

Rick Seaney — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:04:06 +0000

These are the scheduled times for airfare distribution to subscribers, it takes each reservation system a different amount of time to load and present the new prices to the public — anywhere from 2-4 hours domestic and 4-8 hours for international.

The domestic 8pm airfare feed is not loaded until after midnight on reservation systems.

We send out the information immediately (after every airfare feed — not once a night) so you have a huge head start.

Some of the best deals are only good for one airfare feed cycle and many alert systems never notice them …

By: Rick Seaney

Rick Seaney — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:59:59 +0000

There are millions of air travel queries a day — many of them the inventory query result is cached so the airlines don’t even see at hit on their reservation system — so the answer is no you are not driving up the price simply by querying multiple times — but making multiple back to back queries is not very optimal for your time or the computer time on the airlines reservation system either even though I understand why everyone does it — bottom line in theory they could take query volume into account but they don’t … yet

By: Mark A

Mark A — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:49:14 +0000

Good question by Bill W. I did buy a fare, and have been checking back to see if it would go up or down. It has been steadily moving up. Am I contributing that just by checking?