AnnieInAdelaide
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Hi everyone,
I hope I'm posting this to the right area (just joined so apologies if not!).
I was looking at flights from ADL > LAS then LAX > ADL on July 10 and returning July 24th respectively. The flights came up as approx $1800 with United (I know, total bargain). This was last Thursday.
On Friday morning I went to book - flights had gone up over $800!! :evil: That's cool, I thought maybe that was a special fare that had sold out. V Australia had a similar flight the day before for about $80 more - that too had gone up. In fact, every flight I looked at on Thursday 28th April was approx $800 less than it was the following day.
I double checked Qantas' website and those fares had gone up too, whereas before they were around the $2200 mark I think, on Friday they had gone up to $3500 for the above routing.
So my question is.. what on earth happened? I mean, I know fares get sold out but I looked at the seats for all those flights and there was plenty of availability. Did some big thing get announced and I missed it? Surely not every single airline was having a sale that ended on Thursday?
As the flights have gone up so much I can't afford to go on holiday now - is it worth waiting until closer to the time to see if they come down? Do they ever come down? What would you do? (apart from build that time machine...
) Really confused and hoping that you guys know what this might mean.
Cheers
I hope I'm posting this to the right area (just joined so apologies if not!).
I was looking at flights from ADL > LAS then LAX > ADL on July 10 and returning July 24th respectively. The flights came up as approx $1800 with United (I know, total bargain). This was last Thursday.
On Friday morning I went to book - flights had gone up over $800!! :evil: That's cool, I thought maybe that was a special fare that had sold out. V Australia had a similar flight the day before for about $80 more - that too had gone up. In fact, every flight I looked at on Thursday 28th April was approx $800 less than it was the following day.
I double checked Qantas' website and those fares had gone up too, whereas before they were around the $2200 mark I think, on Friday they had gone up to $3500 for the above routing.
So my question is.. what on earth happened? I mean, I know fares get sold out but I looked at the seats for all those flights and there was plenty of availability. Did some big thing get announced and I missed it? Surely not every single airline was having a sale that ended on Thursday?
As the flights have gone up so much I can't afford to go on holiday now - is it worth waiting until closer to the time to see if they come down? Do they ever come down? What would you do? (apart from build that time machine...
) Really confused and hoping that you guys know what this might mean.Cheers
