Hi. We are traveling to Italy (flying into Milan) at the end of August. We have been watching flights for the last several months and prices seem to be on the high end and going up. We are only buying one way tickets, as we used miles for our return flights, and to get decent flights we are looking at a minimum of $1100-$1200 each, and that's booking through JustFly. Going directly through a carrier that we will get miles with, it's $1800+. We went at the same time last year and our flights were about $300 less than what we're seeing now, booking directly through Delta at about 8-9 weeks prior to our trip.
We are currently about 14 weeks out. So my question is, can we expect prices to drop in the next 4-6 weeks with prices more in line with what we paid last year? Or are flights higher this year?
Thanks in advance for your help!