Quote Originally Posted by mjc12771 View Post
Booking flights early has paid off the last 2 Year’s. Last year we paid around $550 from our small local airport booking 10.5 months in advance and today booked (from local airport) for Jan 4-12 for $527 each for 4 of us. Great price. Even having to pay for a couple checked bags is still cheaper then driving 4 hours and staying overnight to fly SW.

It was so nice getting home and only driving 30min.
Nice work!!! Though I will say that there really is no rhyme or reason to how airlines set pricing. Load factors as well as the competitive environment set the tone. The last couple weeks I have seen pricing closer to what we saw a couple of years ago. The last year, the pricing has been rather high, compared to years past. From the West Coast of the US it has traditionally been cheaper to fly to Cancun than it has been to Jamaica, though with pricing like this it makes it tougher to choose between the two, where Cancun scored points for the cheaper flights before. Now if we can get more nonstop options from the West Coast.