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Old June 26th, 2006, 07:18 PM posted to rec.travel.air
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Default Avoid Delta and Atlanta

VS wrote:
My point exactly. Nobody who wants to save money books 12 months in
advance, because there will always be some sale later on when the same
flights will be selling cheaper.


Hillary has shown you examples where this is NOT the case. There are
many periods where it is know that there will NOT be any seat sales. In
such cases, the initial capacity allocations don't change much and the
trick is to get your reservation early so that you can get the lowest
available fare before they are all sold.

If you are going to be travelling in a off season, then yes, you are
pertectly correct that the odds are high that a seat sale with lower
prices will be announced a couple of months (or less) before the flight,
so it is then not the best solution to book a year ahead.

Seat sales happen in seasons/periods where there haven't been enough
people who bought tickets at the standard fares. So they announce a
lower fare to try to attract more people.

Now, if they is gong to be a bird flue epidemic in Australia during
Christmas, then it is quite possible that the airlines would all
announce heavily discounted fares to try to get people to go. In such a
case, you would have lost out by buying a standard ticket a year before.
But the odds of that are fairly low and you cannot predict such an occurance.