Booking Flight

[julielle 199]

Mine are 400$ round trip Burlington (Vermont) to San Diego. That's booked directly with United, and booking Economy Plus on the flight home. I checked the prices on Farecompare.com first and then usually book directly with the airlines. My parents had some really bad experience when they booked through Expedia once, one of their flights got cancelled and they got stuck at Newark airport, and Expedia would not help them, and the airline would not either because they hadn't booked directly through the airline. Anyways, for my flights I connect in Newark on the way there, and Chicago on the way home.

If I had the choice I'd book Virgin America because they're just a lovely airline, but they're not convenient for a San Diego flight.

[Jesser 295]

How far in advance did everyone book them? I'm having surgery in March, so would it be best to wait a couple of months until I booked them? Or the sooner the better?

[AngelEyesInNJ 186]

I went based on things I have read such as the best time to purchase tickets are on Tuesday at 3pm Eastern time and around 42 days in advance, so I actually purchased my tickets on 9/25. Originally I was going to fly out on 11/6 but changed it to flying out on 11/3. I was tracking them for over a month and when I booked that was the cheapest I had seen them.

Good Luck!

[julielle 199]

I booked my tickets 3 weeks out. I decided to have surgery and I wanted it NOW, so 3 weeks out was the soonest that had affordable tickets. I wish I could have booked it for last week because it would all be over and behind me now but the price was about 3 times more Normally I book about 2 months out for regular tickets. And I try to travel on tuesdays and wednesdays because those seem to be the cheapest days, sundays too.