Ticket Buying 101, please

Is there a consumer-oriented Web site that explains how
to shop for airline tickets to get the best price, etc.?
My mother-in-law is traveling between Washington and
Los Angeles in June and my wife wants me to buy the
tickets now, four months in advance! What a ridiculous
notion...isn't it?

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Charles Packer
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You can start at
http://www.smartertravel.com/travel-...html?id=313108

But, as you might suspect, it doesn't cover everything one can and should do
in booking air travel.

On Feb 16, 4:50*pm, "TEP" wrote:
You can start athttp://www.smartertravel.com/travel-advice/Ten-book-airfare.html?id=3...

But, as you might suspect, it doesn't cover everything one can and should do
in booking air travel.


Thanks...looks like $480-520 for a non-stop BWI-LAX in the latter half
of June.
I'll sign up for one of those fare-alerts for this destination.

--
Charles Packer
http://cpacker.org/whatnews
mailboxATcpacker.org

"Charles Packer" wrote:
Thanks...looks like $480-520 for a non-stop BWI-LAX in the latter
half of June. I'll sign up for one of those fare-alerts for this
destination.

I just checked for 6/20 - 6/27 and found fares on AirTran from $431
to $455. If you are willing to travel from Dulles, you could do much
better. For the same dates, Virgin America has fares from $359-$380.
Try www.sidestep.com IMO, sales will start showing up in April.

Charles Packer wrote:
Is there a consumer-oriented Web site that explains how
to shop for airline tickets to get the best price, etc.?
My mother-in-law is traveling between Washington and
Los Angeles in June and my wife wants me to buy the
tickets now, four months in advance! What a ridiculous
notion...isn't it?

Not reall to ridiculous. With a 10 percent discount code, I recently got
SJC-IAD, DCA-SJC for $202 (all-in) on AA, and that was only 2 weeks
prior to departure. It depends on a lot of things. Often you might find
sales close to the time of your travel, but often you get the biggest
discount months ahead. Sometimes the cheapest seats are sold out well in
advance. If you wait, you also limit the number of avaiable options you
have.