Our flights to Vegas in May were almost $600 each. Puke. We are going for a wedding and have very specific times we can fly. The whole thing is costing twice as much as we thought.
Flights to Orlando in nov are much lower, I think $300ish?
We fly out of Houston in united, southwest isn't cheaper. It's annoying but at least the flights are direct?
Flying DC area to Michigan, I am thrilled if I can get below $300 each. Thats a 1.5 hour flight. Flying to Denver, Seattle, San Fran, I am typically in the 6-700 range.
While flights prices are always changing, one stat I enjoy:
In 1969, my dad flew from Detroit to Miami for spring break and paid $275. Occasionally, that flight is still that much, which is shocking given inflation during that time.
I totally feel you. I still like to believe I can fly anywhere for $200-ish. In reality, that is really rare and generally can only get me to Florida, and only if I catch a fare sale and fly on a Tuesday.
Flights booked for this year so far (all are round-trip, per person, from NY):
To New Orleans: $530 To Atlanta: $400 To Spain: $1284 To London: $1491 To Montreal: $414
I was able to use credit card points (I LOVE YOU, CITIBANK) for Atlanta, half of New Orleans, half of Montreal, and all of London, but what I listed above are the retail prices for the flights.
We paid $400pp for our trip from Philadelphia to Omaha in 2 weeks. I was happy with that bc I got a good deal on our hotel. Still it was more than what we spent to go from PHL to San Juan for our HM in 2008.
Flew Boston to Tampa last month for $280 and I felt I got a good deal. I'm flying to Chicago next Sunday (though for work not leisure) from Boston and it was $390.
When I fly from Boston to Newark I can usually get it in for around $200.
This thread is the main reason I don't want to quit my job right now. I love that I can hop on a plane and fly anywhere in the US for free...and international destinations only cost me the taxes.
I flew Detroit to Nagoya direct in 2006 for $500. No joke.
The only "cheap" places to fly from my home airports are Cancun and sometimes Punta Cana. Often I can find those around or under $400.
I guess I should accept $300 flights to Florida if we do a cruise.
We have a regional airport that recently got Frontier Airlines service and they go to FL, NC and GA for cheap, like $49-99 depending on the day and destination but you have to be flexible with dates. You can't do that with a cruise unless you're going to add time before/after which eats up the savings.
I flew Detroit to Nagoya direct in 2006 for $500. No joke.
The only "cheap" places to fly from my home airports are Cancun and sometimes Punta Cana. Often I can find those around or under $400.
I guess I should accept $300 flights to Florida if we do a cruise.
We have a regional airport that recently got Frontier Airlines service and they go to FL, NC and GA for cheap, like $49-99 depending on the day and destination but you have to be flexible with dates. You can't do that with a cruise unless you're going to add time before/after which eats up the savings.
A few weeks ago we flew from NY to FL and the prices the days we needed to leave/return were insane. $1,300 and change total, for 2 non-stop round-trip flights.
I just pulled up the itinerary for flights to Denver in May. 2 non-stop round-trip flights from NY (EWR, so still a NYC metro hub) to Denver for $722 total.
Twice in the past few years I've booked 2 round trip direct flights to Denver, packaged with a hotel and rental car and paid roughly $800. So yeah, flight prices are really jumping.
I think $400 flights to London FROM NYC are a dream now, right? As are $114 flights from NYC to Boston.
Fast forward to late summer/early fall, though. We booked 3 non-stop round-trip flights (got baby his own seat) to the Bahamas, and booked a week at the Harbourside (apartments) at Atlantis. It only came out to $2,900 after tax.
Thankfully, Denver is where I go most. For whatever reason, flights between Louisiana & Denver are super cheap. I never pay more than $250, and they're nonstop.
Oh yeah, a few years ago we went to Japan because our closer vacation prospects were more expensive. It was crazy. Japan and China are still very reasonable, IMO. I can't wait until DS can manage long flights in a few years, and be content with food and movies for an extended period of time with his tush parked in his seat. We're going to show him the world, and keep up with our motto of "make a list of destinations, mess with prices online, then go to the least expensive location on our list." We've had some of the best experiences traveling like this. Really, when we booked Japan, earlier that day we had no idea we would be headed to Asia. But Switzerland, out frontrunner was coming in at well over $4k.
2 round-trip NON-STOP flights from NY to Tokyo on Continental, and like 6 nights at the Hilton in Shinjuku (popular district in Tokyo for tourists to stay), came out to a whopping $2,600 after tax. No joke.
The travel company at work and I gave up yesterday trying to find a flight from my local airport to Orlando for a conference in June. With the dates/times I wanted to fly they were like $950 for coach (we don't do business class). Even going in a day early or staying a day late to add flexibility in price didn't help. I'm just going to call back in a few weeks and hope the prices are different. WTF?
From Chicago the cheapest flight I could find to Cancun next month was $440. We actually paid more like $550 when we booked our tickets last fall. I think flight prices have just gotten ridiculous.
I am highly annoyed with airline prices right now. I flew from Mpls to Tampa last month for $250. I am trying to book flights to New Jersey for the end of May and they ahve been sitting at $500. You would think Florida during sprink break would be sky high but nope, going ot Jersey is.
What I'm hearing says I should just be happy with $1200 to Ireland and book now before it goes up? I've been watching the fare for a few weeks, and it's not really changing. I really want to go, but I'm balking at the flight price
Most of my flights recently have been for work, but my last few leisure flights have been ~$375 to Vermont, free (mileage) to San Diego, and $1200 to Alaska. The Alaska one made me cringe for sure, but I don't balk at $400 or so domestically in general. Airfares have actually been relatively low for a long time and we're starting to see what I consider normal adjustments due to inflation.
Post by sillygoosegirl on Apr 19, 2014 9:55:49 GMT -5
I think we paid around $300/each to get to the Bahamas in January, which felt like quite a deal. Of course, we were already in Atlanta visiting family, and that's the only reason they were so cheap. I can hardly believe what we spend flying to Atlanta these days. Easily $600+/each if it's a holiday and normally $300+/each if we get a non-holiday deal (This is from Portland, Oregon). I think combining trips will increasingly be a thing for us, along with traveling not during the holidays. I can't believe what it costs to get to Europe from here. In 2009 we flew to London for $500/each (granted, from Wisconsin and off season). Why didn't we travel more back when it was cheaper. :-(
What I'm hearing says I should just be happy with $1200 to Ireland and book now before it goes up? I've been watching the fare for a few weeks, and it's not really changing. I really want to go, but I'm balking at the flight price
Oh damn. Where are you flying out of? Is it the height of the summer season?
I just pulled our itinerary from May 2012. (Memorial Day.) 2 non-stop round-trip flights and a room at the hilton for 4 days was $1,600 after tax.