Originally Posted by
MissBlue
nothing fishy -- part of what drives air ticket pricing is what is available on the date you wish to travel. as the date gets closer, more and more seats are sold.... there are "blocks" of tickets offered at bargain price, blocks at the mid-price, etc., on up to full price. As the cheap seats sell off, all that's left are the more expensive ones. Add to that, on the 'peak' travel days, (especially around holiday times) prices start out higher, and sell off faster - then you have even higher prices being the only ones left as the date gets closer....
it's hard to know the exact right moment - do I grab up the ticket, or wait a little longer?? .... when you have to consider the balance of all these factors -- but it's not fishy, it's just the basic economics of pricing, based in part upon supply-and-demand. although the trend can be an educated guess (we know certain dates will be higher demand... i.e holidays - when demand is greater, supply is lower, and therefore prices are higher) - the customer really has no way of knowing at any given moment what the demand is for a specific date - so it's always a kind of dance to know when to push the button.
