Plane tickets - Nashville to NYC - Price Jumped!!?
This past Friday I looked online at flights from Nashville to LaGuardia. Found round trip tickets for $392 after taxes and everything. I had to finalized some things on Saturday, went back out to American’s website on Sunday and prices have jumped to $587. The plane up is about half full (no seats purchased over the last week to 10 days). The plane back is nearly empty. The flights are on Sat, 4/5 and back on Tues 4/8. I have only flown a couple times, so I don’t know how all this works. I’ve checked all the online travels sites and can’t get anything close to the original price. Would calling the airlines get me a better price? Do you think these prices will drop again? Thanks.
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get tickets ASAP, they will only continue to rise by maybe 100 dollars a day!! =| plane trips are so expensive. Drive...it will save money, and worth the trip/experience =)
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No, they won't drop if you ask me. I monitor the prices very carefully for the last few months and since the end of January prices grow and grow and rarely drop back to normal. This reminds me once when I was shopping the prices went up with 80 euro in less than 5 minutes. I was feeling so helpless. Here http://blog.lessno.com they publish some price facts from time to time, maybe they'll help you
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What happens is that fares for a plane flight are classified in class codes. So many seats are sold as "Y" class, and other letter codes. Each letter code has a price to it, and they are sold according to request by users. Once all the certain tickets are sold out in that letter class then prices will go up, not down and seats become more expensive. So, yes, you can see that the flight is not sold out, but that does not mean that tickets will get cheaper. The timeframe you are talking about is a holiday timeframe (easter) and is also spring break for some schools. I would imagine that flights will be selling out shortly as people figure out their schedules and start making plans for this time. Prices will most likely go up even more if you wait longer. Purchasing the seats via the internet (through the carrier's web site or a seat consolidator like cheaptickets, lastminutetravel.com) is cheaper than calling up the airline directly. If you see a fare on-line, and go to call them up, in most cases they are going to tell you that the fare you see is an internet only fare and they can not match it. Better book something now or you may find yourself with no reservation and no seat!
4 :
go to a travel agent. found on Apollo for $287.49 with AA.
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try www.amazingdiscountstravel.com good luck
