I wish I knew if this was a good price.

[Prairie_Gal]

Looking at flights from Calgary, AB (YYC) to San Juan (SJU) next January. I know it is going to be expensive, but right now they are running about $800-1200 pp. Is $800 a decent price for that flight? Is there any way of looking at historical prices?

 

Is it generally better to book early, or wait?

[LiftLockCouple]

For comaprison, our son paid approx $700 Edmonton - Miami on Air Canada this past Jan through Choice Air ( RCI ), taxes included. He booked in Sept or October, can't remember the exact date. Of course he connected in Toronto. Fortunately the weather was great so no delays.

[HookedonSXM]

We flew from Regina to San Juan for a holiday cruise Dec 2009. We booked our flights in March and paid approximately $1200 pp. We continued to follow the flight prices on line and within weeks of booking they went up to $2100pp and never went down. Of course this was for a high season flight, but we were sure happy we booked early!

Beth

[StLouisCruisers]

Try farecast.com. Just put in the airports and the dates wanted and wait for their prediction - up, down, or steady.

[Prairie_Gal]

Try farecast.com. Just put in the airports and the dates wanted and wait for their prediction - up, down, or steady.

 

It says there is no predictions for those cities.

 

Based on what HookedOnSXM and LiftLockCouple have experienced, $800 doesn't sound too bad. I know we paid about that to fly to Hawaii.

 

Thanks for your help everyone!

[Eng23]

Looking at flights from Calgary, AB (YYC) to San Juan (SJU) next January. I know it is going to be expensive, but right now they are running about $800-1200 pp. Is $800 a decent price for that flight? Is there any way of looking at historical prices?

 

Is it generally better to book early, or wait?

 

I'm not familiar with the YYC-SJU market but based on distance travelled $800 dollars sounds reasonable $1200 a little high. My guess is the fare will fall somewhere between those two prices. As far as booking early or late it's a crap shoot, you could book it at $800 and the next day the fare could go up or down $200. Usual rule of thumb is the further in advance you buy the lower the fare but it's not gauranteed to work that way..

[StLouisCruisers]

It says there is no predictions for those cities.

 

Based on what HookedOnSXM and LiftLockCouple have experienced, $800 doesn't sound too bad. I know we paid about that to fly to Hawaii.

 

Thanks for your help everyone!

 

Yes, I think it must be too far out for predictions. You could always check prices for the next few months and see what they say. I wish there was a way of knowing "for sure" what the future holds as far as plane fares!

[iancal]

Prairie gal...not sure this helps given the recent jump in oil prices. We booked Calgary-San Juan last June for Dec10/Dec 27/2010 trip. We booked United @ $732. CAD which included all taxes. At the time we booked there was a slightly less expensive (by about $50 or so) routing but it involved a red eye flight. Good luck.