Airfares dropping for the time being

Thanks for the link, Mardee.

Just last night I was very happy to jump on a good deal to cross the pond in November. Notably, flying out of one of my smaller, local airports was cheaper than hauling down to JFK for the direct flights—it's usually the opposite. (The lesser of two evils, I prefer the connection to dealing with getting to JFK, which is expensive, a hassle, or both.)

Just advice I have given but then failed to follow myself: If you see a great fare, grab it. Of course you need to know about what is normal, a whole other discussion.

My wife and I are looking at a late April trip, somewhere we can take it easy, and since we enjoyed Spain several times, thought that might be the ticket.

She looked yesterday on Delta, found a great price, ~$750, Main Cabin (Main will get us an upgrade, Basic will not), she called me, as I am out of town, she told me about it, but she was someplace she couldn't talk. I went on, found the flight, found other flights better for $780, had my finger on buy, and thought I should discuss with her. By the time we connected 2 hours later, the price for the same flight was ~$1050. Still a good price, not great. At least we have plenty of time, just be prepared to act.

We are still working out details of what we want to do, so are not desperate to buy, but when we commit, at least the policies of "no change fees" make it easy to switch to a deal if it pops up.

We found a great deal from LAX to Amsterdam a few weeks ago, business class, on British Airways, around $2000 each RT, then used the AARP discount and stacked it with the 10% off we get by using the British Airways visa. So total was $1800 each, with good connections. I had been checking Google Flights daily. Since then I've watched the price double, then bounce up and down, and it's fluctuating. This is the first real movement I've seen on business class fares in a long time.
The downside is our home airport is San Diego, which is much smaller than LAX, and the business class fares here are very high and not showing any downward movement. Don't like going to LAX, but at the price we got, we are doing it.
Good luck!

I purchased international business class tickets during the last week of July. The following week those same tickets cost $2000 more dollars which was not quite double what I paid. This week that same itinerary is still $500 above what I paid.

The deals come and go! For another international itinerary I moved too slowly and missed out on one of the lowest prices that I’ve seen since January.

i snagged JFK-CDG on AA, main cabin, for $435 in March. am beyond thrilled!

Whoa, that's a nice deal!

Got a roundtrip to Paris as part of a Morocco trip to enjoy Paris on both ends $750 on SAS from SFO with luggage and good connections in Copenhagen vs $1100 on United or $1300 on AF.
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Due to my low vision SAS waived the seat fees.

To Morocco from Orly $160 on Veueling with seats and luggage And $200ish on TUI from Casablanca with luggage and seats both nonstops. So for $1100 per persin for 3 I got all flights which would have been just the Paris option.

I did not look back and just booked it. Leaving in October returning in November. As stated above know the going rate and be ready to book. So what if the same flight was $90 less somewhere else Im already saving $300.

You have to be flexible. We are going on SAS and on their Airbus with 2 seats and leaves at 8:20 PM arriving 7:20 PM the next day in Paris and get home at 6:20 PM. I told the agent we went luggage include and he got it. In 30 minutes I saved $300 .

I got all of our flights for $1100 per person including the Morocco ones. So if I resorted to paying $1100 just r/t Paris then out trip would be more expensive.

Rick would be proud of me staying up till 3 AM playing around. Hint Momondo is your Friend. I was going around trying SJC and SFO. I wanted to avoid JFK and Copenhagen is an easy airport. I really don't mind it.

Thank you for posting this and for the gifted article Mardee! Much appreciated.

Susan, I hope you can find a great flight with it!