On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:21:00 -0800 (PST), me wrote:
>On Feb 20, 12:21 am, paintedj...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Just a week ago, my girlfriend found a flight from LA to Rome in late
>> July/early August for under $700. Just a week before that, I found
>> flights from LA to Rome at the same time for about $725. I thought
>> that these were great prices and knew that I had to buy soon. I got
>> my taxes done yesterday (I had to know how much my refund would be
>> before buying airline tix) and then looked on travelocity to find that
>> the flight faires from LAX to Rome for July/August had literally
>> doubled! The lowest faire was $1,344 via United -- I have never seen
>> faires that high in my entire life.
>>
>> Now with summer approaching, will airline tickets continue to soar or
>> should I bide my time and wait for prices to hopefully tumble back to
>> a reasonable price. Thanks for your expert advice.
>
>
> No. Barring some unusual international event or economic
>collapse, airfares will generally continue to rise. People are
>booking
>their summer trips about now and will continue to do so into
>the spring. If you don't do it soon, it will be unlikely that the
>fares will
>fall between now and July.
There's around USD400 of taxes in the fares
http://www.farecrawler.com/index.aspx
--
Martin
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