Confessions of a YYC Travel Junkie

[Bobblehead]

When is the best time to book a flight for around Christmas?
Should it be done asap? I doubt there will be many sales for flights around this time, but thought I may as well check with the travel junkies.

(and I have a WestJet voucher, so that would be my primary choice)



Edit: And what the heck - Westjet doesn't fly to SFO after October?

[cmyden]

YYC to Vegas (LAS) - $268 USD

Westjet has some decent deals going on right now. For this price you won't get the ideal Thu/Fri to Sunday Vegas getaway, but I'll post the best date combos I can find...

3 nights
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Saturday Oct 24 - Tue Oct 27

Saturday Oct 31 - Tue Nov 3 <<<-- yes that's right, Halloween in Vegas on a Saturday tonight to boot! Get your Hunter S Thompson costumes out.

Saturday Nov 14 - Tue Nov 17

Saturday Dec 12 - Tue Dec 15


4 nights
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Tuesday departures: Oct 13, 27 Nov 2
Saturday departures: Oct 24,31 Nov 14 Dec 12

Price includes all taxes, as always.

cM

[Peanut]

So, I need advice from some of the more experienced travellers... what is a "good" price on flights from Calgary to London? We're looking at a Europe trip next May/June. Fares today for next May seem to be about $1050 pp return, plus about $500 pp in taxes. So $3000 in total for 2 people. How much lower might it go?

[rockstar]

Originally Posted by Peanut

So, I need advice from some of the more experienced travellers... what is a "good" price on flights from Calgary to London? We're looking at a Europe trip next May/June. Fares today for next May seem to be about $1050 pp return, plus about $500 pp in taxes. So $3000 in total for 2 people. How much lower might it go?

For two people, with a little luck, patience, and maybe some timely help from cMyden and this thread, you can get both of you there and back for ~$1100 total. No problem.

Especially because you're looking at next May. That's a long ways away.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by rockstar

For two people, with a little luck, patience, and maybe some timely help from cMyden and this thread, you can get both of you there and back for ~$1100 total. No problem.

Especially because you're looking at next May. That's a long ways away.

Excellent. The $3000 price tag stung a little!!

[red sky]

Originally Posted by Peanut

Excellent. The $3000 price tag stung a little!!

Especially when you were scheduled to go to Spain for $200 total

[cmyden]

Excellent. The $3000 price tag stung a little!!

$3000 would be a horribly high price to pay for 2 people to London. There are charter companies like Thomas Cook and Air Transat with flights in the $700 or less range (including all taxes).

Lately there have been some deals for $567 CDN (incl taxes) in October.

Of course, the more flexible you are with dates the cheaper it is.

But flights to London in May should be easily doable in the $700-800 range.

[Freeway]

Originally Posted by cmyden

$3000 would be a horribly high price to pay for 2 people to London. There are charter companies like Thomas Cook and Air Transat with flights in the $700 or less range (including all taxes).

Lately there have been some deals for $567 CDN (incl taxes) in October.

Of course, the more flexible you are with dates the cheaper it is.

But flights to London in May should be easily doable in the $700-800 range.

I'm looking at Europe for 2 people at roughly the same time, so that sounds fantastic.

[cmyden]

Calgary to Houston - $300 USD return

On US Airways, starting near the end of September. Quite a few dates.

One week trips:
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September 28, 29, 30.
Oct 2,3,6,13,14,17,20,21,27,28,30
Nov 11, 18
Dec 5

cM

[cmyden]

If you know anyone that lives in the Ottawa/Montreal area, this is a pretty crazy deal...

Montreal to Orlando - $135 USD

Nov 19-26 or Dec 10-17.

On AirTransat. Can see it on Kayak.com.

[Berger_4_]

Son. That is all.

[rockstar]

Hey cMyden (or anyone else with experience in monitoring flight pricing),

How long have you been monitoring flights for? Long enough to see any patterns from season to season?

I've been looking for a flight from YVR to Amsterdam (or somewhere close) in October, and for the last three weeks the prices for most flights to continental Europe have been quite high and largely unchanging.

Have you or anyone else noticed seasonal differences in prices? Can these prices be expected to drop? I booked my Dusseldorf one-way back in June for $250 all in. Flights to Amsterdam right now, for the same time period, are over $1000 return. Seems high, and I'm waiting for it to drop, but it isn't.

[cmyden]

Hi Rockstar,

I'm seeing an Air Transat flight from Oct 2 to Oct 10th for $760 all in.

I can only see it on AirTransat.com, for some reason it's not showing for me on a lot of the search engines.

I would think flights for early October would be on sale by now if they were going to be. But it's pretty hard to predict with any accuracy. Sometimes they show up the week before, which is the gamble I guess!

[rockstar]

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[dubc80]

I'm been monitoring a Cathay Pacific flight from Vancouver to Hong Kong for about 2 months now and I'm convinced that Cathay Pacific never ever has sales!

I believe they are an award winning airline, one of the best in the world. I might have to pay up.

[Cactus Jack]

Any cheap flights to go to Van in the first few weeks of December?

[dubc80]

Originally Posted by Cactus Jack

Any cheap flights to go to Van in the first few weeks of December?

I think you missed the boat (for now). Air Canada and WestJet had the 50% off deal a little while ago.

I got a return flight to Vancouver for just over $200 all-in.

Keep your eyes open though, this deal seems to pop up a lot!

[Tron_fdc]

Originally Posted by dubc80

I'm been monitoring a Cathay Pacific flight from Vancouver to Hong Kong for about 2 months now and I'm convinced that Cathay Pacific never ever has sales!

I believe they are an award winning airline, one of the best in the world. I might have to pay up.

Try Air China. I fly with them all the time, and their planes are all upgraded to the latest airbuses. I've flown return from Vancouver to Beijing for as low as $2500.00 in business class, on this plane http://www.airchina.ca/en/a330.html

I'm doing a Calgary-Vancouver-Hong Kong-Beijing-Sydney-Hong Kong-Van-Calgary next month for $4000, all business class. it's an awesome airline for that kind of money.

[Tron_fdc]

nm

[nickerjones]

man those business class seats look awesome... I have always wanted to go to China ...