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schedule\u00a0and carrierare important to you, visit yapta.com<\/a> and add the flights of interest to “My Trips”. \u00a0Yapta will create a graph of the price of the flight over time and alert you when the price goes up or down. \u00a0This is the only site we’ve found where you can select specific flights (times and airlines) and track the price over time. \u00a0If schedule and carrier are not important, you can just track the route you plan on taking on kayak.com<\/a> or a similar site. \u00a0This will give you the lowest price, but may be with an undesirable carrier. \u00a0For example, we could have flown to London for $200 less, but we would have flown with Aeroloft through Moscow. \u00a0Tracking on kayak.com<\/a> would just give us the price of the Aeroloft flight, which we we didn’t want in the first place. \u00a0Using yapta<\/a> allowed us to track the flights we actually wanted to take.\u00a0<\/li>\n
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- September 2009 (LAX-FRA-VCE, CDG-FRA-LAX on Lufthansa) – Booked in Early May (4 months prior) for $750 per pax
\u00a0<\/li>\n - September 2012 (LAX-EWR-LIS, MAD-EWR-LAX on Continental) – Booked in Late February (6 months prior) for $1130 per pax
\u00a0<\/li>\n - November 2012 (LAX-LHR, LHR-LAX on Air New Zealand) – Booked in June (5 months prior) for $995 per pax, bottomed-out late June for $950 per pax<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
We are already tracking potential flights for next year (with the same dates, but this year), to better understand the possible trends. \u00a0It is always difficult to lock-in the lowest price, but we’ve been fairly lucky with the strategy outlines above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deciding on a time frame for booking airline tickets to Europe is always difficult. \u00a0It is tempting to book soon after the trip is initially conceived. \u00a0Locking down the flight details allows travel planners to start working on the more … Continue reading