Traveling over the holidays? It would behoove everyone to listen: “Holiday travel procrastinators do so at their own peril this year, and practical travelers should be shopping now and buying before the end of October.” (Rick Seaney, Online Travel Guide)
There are parents with kids in college who, when waiting to book for Thanksgiving or Christmas from one week to the next, thinking they could get “better deals” are finding that prices are doubling from one week to the next.
The lesson?
“If you book way in advance, you can get really good deals,” a parent said.
Airlines now have an advantage in the endless game of cat-and-mouse with travelers. Because of the recession, they have been grounding planes. Fewer seats for sale gives them more power to set prices, since they are less desperate to get even modest fares to help fill up planes.
The number of domestic seats for sale is down 5 percent this month, compared with October last year, and they are down 21 percent from October 2000, according to OAG, an aviation-data firm.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
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