Another airline ticket thread

[62flint]

Heading to Johannesburg next june, When is the best time to buy tickets? Looking at hopper the app says to wait.
Feel like a dog chasing my tail. Buy now and the prices drop or wait and they go up?

 

[Hunt anything]

I always start looking seriously around 6 months out. Other than during the Covid years all of the flights on Delta have been full so if you see a price you like pull the trigger on it.

But Jennifer at @TRAVEL EXPRESS should give you a good professional answer.

 

[thi9elsp]

I just priced on delta 6/25 - 7/13 Tampa - Atlanta - Johannesburg. It's prime season (regular tourists and hunters) so the prices were high relative to off season. Premium Economy for 2 is $9,794. Oh my. I'm waiting to confirm hunt date options with my outfitter and then will have Jennifer look at best option for travel with firearms.

 

[Mark Biggerstaff]

I just priced on delta 6/25 - 7/13 Tampa - Atlanta - Johannesburg. It's prime season (regular tourists and hunters) so the prices were high relative to off season. Premium Economy for 2 is $9,794. Oh my. I'm waiting to confirm hunt date options with my outfitter and then will have Jennifer look at best option for travel with firearms.

I flew Premium for first time this past June. Personally it was not worth the added expense over Comfort + to me for what little it offered. I will stick with Comfort+

I usually start shopping and keeping an eye on flights as soon as they open for my dates. I have Jennifer on look out also. When you see a price you can live with have her book it. I found a big drop one morning about 6am and text Jennifer and she got it secured before it jumped up again.

 

[JimP]

Back when I flew over in 2022 I looked at flights and prices on Qatar. If I would of purchased my tickets right then I could of flown business class, but I had a agency doing the tickets and I ended up flying cattle class for the same price that I could of flown business.

You just never know if they are going to go up or down, anymore the odds of them going up in price is more likely than them going down.

I believe that you can't purchase tickets more than 11 months out.

 

[Firebird]

United was a bit cheaper than delta if you don’t mind going through Newark.
Quatar was also cheaper but significantly longer and not worth the time lost for me.