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Hi there. Need advice... Heading down February 17th for a BVI charter. Is it to early to book airline? Flying out of BOS or JFK and tickets are expensive $1000+. Going into STT was high too.

Should we wait? Was wondering if airlines will likely add more flights.

We are going down in March and we booked already kept watching and the flights I wanted kept going up in price finally got tired of it and pulled the trigger. I guess I did the right thing they are still going up. I would rather have it locked in than to keep looking they won't get much lower if any, and the more seats that are gone only raises the price as far as I know they do not add more flights.

Watched the air fares pretty close for the
trip last April. About 2 months out, the fares
dropped and then about 4-5 weeks out,
they dropped again, significantly.
YMMV

Mike

Apparently the traditional wisdom is that tickets for international travel are the lowest around 90 days out. For ME, I can't wait that long, as it makes me too nervous. February is a long way away yet, so I wouldn't be in a big hurry to buy tickets. You can set up a Yapta (or other) price watcher program, to alert you when the price goes up or down by a certain amount, and follow the price for a while. When you see a price that you can live with, book it Danno! ...and then try not to look back, as you will just drive yourself crazy! You can look online for seats for the flights you want and see how many seats are left. Right now, and at those high prices, I would bet the flights are empty. Prices from the Northeast going to the Caribbean for winter are very high right now. Presumably they will go down at least briefly. The trick is to book when they do and then, as I said, don't look back!

I just booked the leg to San Juan today for a trip to EIS in February. Thank you SouthWest!

I booked my January flight to BVI when the flights opened up a few weeks ago. JFK-EIS via jetBlue. just checked and the flights are double today what i paid for the extra room seats... i would not expect the flights to drop below what i paid at all. good luck.

On Jet Blue, there is often an advantage to book as soon as the schedule becomes available, yes.

thanks everyone for the tips :-)

Just curious how to book to EIS through JetBlue? I understand it would be a code share flight on Cape Air or Seabourne, but when I put in EIS as the destination on the JebBlue site it says there are no flights or that it's an airport code that they don't serve. This also happens on other airlines as well which do have a codeshare with one of the airlines that service EIS. Do you have to make these reservations via a phone call?

Thanks,

Matt

That date is the ny area's schools winter break...I don't think prices will go down much....

Doubt you'll see much movement lower. Friday of a holiday weekend. Lotsa luck.

Probably one of the most expensive days to fly from the northeast...

President's Week is longstanding school vacation for nearly all public schools.

Take your kids out a day or two early, and bring them back a day or 2 late. Stay sane.