Remember the joke making the rounds a while back comparing airline ticket pricing policy to paint pricing policy? Basically, when you want to paint, the paint is very expensive. When you don't need to paint, it's dirt cheap. Since you only shop for paint when you want to paint, it always seems very expensive. It's as simple as that :-) Mike Gammon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerard M Foley" <gfoley@columbus.rr.com> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 3:37 PM Subject: Re: SF Gate: Too early not much better than too late for air tickets > Subject: SF Gate: Too early not much better than too late for air tickets > <snip> > > Although "buy early" is often good travel advice, it's not always a > good > > idea for air tickets -- especially when you buy very early. > > > <snip> > Last year I knew I wanted to go round trip Columbus-New York in November. > The prices I report will not be accurate, but are roughly what I found. > > In June the lowest was over $400. By August the fare got below $300, and in > September or early October I bought at $150. I don't know what happened > after that, but I am sure that less than a week before my departure I would > have been above $400 again. > > The cruise line business is also peculiar. I am going round trip > Newark-Durban to go on a ship. I will fly through Atlanta both ways. I am > told that the fare Atlanta-Durban would be $500 more than I am paying > Newark-Durban. > > Gerry > http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley > http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html >