How come tickets overseas are so different from day to day???

Question

I find so complicated to choose the tickets, and how to pick the best price for a trip in 2 months from now.

How do i know those prices will not drop even more ?

Answer 1

because the tax you pay is in U.S dollars no matter what country you are in, thus it changes with the currency rate for the day...if you are quoted one price on a tuesday you will get a different price on a wednesday if the rate of currency changes

Answer 2

It happens because they conside high and low season, and the prices get higher when the date is very close. My advice: buy in large advance. And consult a good travel agent.

Answer 3

I once got an email with all this information and I hope it's helpful to you too!

SECRET AIRFARE WARS & OTHER AIRFARE BARGAINS: Every day, airlines lower a few, or a few hundred, fares to incredibly low levels. No one knows why. The airlines won't talk about it, & don't advertise them. How do you find these fares? Only by checking here often, because the best deals sell real fast. Click HERE

The Airlines Stopped Paying Travel Agency Commissions. How does this affect you? Travel Agencies now add reservation processing fees to the fare price when booking airline tickets for you. The average service fee is USD$25. Here is what big players do: AMEX is at $30 per ticket & corporate AAA is expected to go to $30 per ticket for non-members, $20 for AAA members.

TO SAVE MONEY MOST TRAVELERS PURCHASE THEIR AIRFARE ONLINE. A Recent Consumer Reports Study Found That Even The Most Basic Fares Vary Substantially & The Lowest Airfares Are Found By Those Who Shop To Check All Possibilities.

HERE ARE MONEY SAVING AIRFARE TIPS OFFERED BY GEORGE HOBICA OF AIRFARE WATCHDOG.COM, AN ASSOCIATE, WHO IS TOP NOTCH AT THIS:

1. Search Airline Sites Individually - Increasingly, some airlines have "private" sales, reserving their very best fares for their own sites. With the exception of Southwest and JetBlue, which sell fares on their own sites exclusively, most of the airlines that do this are smaller domestic airlines or large international carriers, but we've even seen Delta do it, and we're not talking here just about last minute weekend fares. Alaska, Air New Zealand, Malaysia, Frontier, Qantas, Singapore, SAS, Varig and others are using this strategy. Niche carriers like USA3000 and Allegiant Air usually don't share their fare data with third-party sites at all, although USA3000 fares are included in Sidestep.com searches. A list of links for airlines of the world can be found here: http://www.smilinjack.com/airlines.htm

2. Don't Assume That Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia, And Sidestep All Have The Same Fares - They don't. Especially on international fares, one of these online travel agencies could have a fare several hundreds less or higher than another. Recently, Travelocity was selling seats to London on Virgin for $400-$470 round-trip, taxes included, from east and west coast cities, even for peak summer travel. Those fares were only available on Travelocity, not Orbitz or Expedia (they weren't even available on Virgin's own site). So check all the online agencies, including Cheapair.com, Hotwire, Kayak, Airfare.com, and LastMinuteTravel in addition to the ones already mentioned.

3. Try A Flexible Fare Search - If you're at all flexible, you can sometimes save hundreds by adjusting your travel dates, often by just a day or two. Travelocity has the best flexible date search option in the industry for two reasons: it searches 330 days ahead, it includes international flights both between the US and international destinations, and also flights between international destinations (of course, it's limited, as all online agencies are, by its exclusion of Southwest, JetBlue, and several small domestic and international carriers such as EasyJet and Ryanair). To use this feature, simply click on the "Flexible dates" button just below the "to" and "from" boxes on the flight search engine (check these step by step instructions if you're unsure how this works). Cheapair.com is our second favorite flexible search; it goes out 330 days too but, unlike Travelocity, it does not work for international destinations. Orbitz has a limited flexible date function that searches a span of only 30 days (click on "Flexible dates"), and Expedia does flexible search only between a few dozen major US cities (click on "My travel dates are flexible"). Sidestep.com and the other major sites have no flexible search capability. Increasingly, individual airline sites are improving their flexible date search functions. American, AerLingus, Air New Zealand, Spirit, and USA3000 all have decent ones and Southwest and US Airways have good ones.

4. Combine Weekend Fares - Last minute weekend fares are often great deals, but most people don't realize that they can construct itineraries by combining two of these fares. Let's say you want to fly from Boston to San Antonio next weekend, and you've signed up for all the weekly newsletters alerting you of these deals but there's no Boston/San Antonio deals listed. However, if there's a Boston to Atlanta fare for $128 round-trip, and an Atlanta to San Antonio fare for $108 round-trip, then there is indeed a Boston/San Antonio fare as well. Just buy two separate fares (we've noticed that Travelocity and some other sites do a good job of combining weekend fares in this manner). You can even combine such fares on two different airlines, but make sure you leave enough time in between connecting flights in case there's a delay.

5. Sign Up For Ding Fares & Frontier's Fare Alerts - Southwest offers daily " Ding" deals that pop up on your computer (announced by an audible "ding", thus the name) that can save a few bucks off their already low fares. Frontier Airlines has begun sending out similar fares by email. In both cases, the fares expire the same day they're announced but they're often good for travel far into the future.

6. Buy Hotel + Air Packages - It's often cheaper to buy an air/hotel package rather than airfare alone. When we say "cheaper" we mean that the total package with hotel is often less than the airfare without the hotel component. Site59.com is the online leader in this field. Travelocity owns Site59, so you'll often see "TotalTrip" options on Travelocity just above the airfare-only search results. Don't ignore these deals! Usually, they work best only if there are two of you traveling since the hotels are based on double occupancy. They're especially useful for last minute travel. Tour operators and your local travel agent also sell packages that might save you money, although not necessarily on last minute deals.

7. Search For Fares Early In The Morning And On Weekends - Airlines play games with airfares, sometimes, it seems, merely to annoy their competitors. If you check a New York to Seattle fare before going to bed one night it might be $228 round-trip, but check at 8 AM the following day and it could be $108 But that sneak sale, which could be valid for travel up to 330 days in the future, will probably last only a few hours, and seats will sell quickly. So be an early bird and catch these unadvertised deals. And for reasons that we can only speculate on, airlines lower fares on Saturday mornings and during the weekend (this is also when those "fat finger" airfare mistakes seem to happen). The aforementioned peak summer deals on Virgin to London popped up on a Saturday afternoon, and those now famous 88 cent USAIR roundtrips on a Saturday morning.

8. Check Fares Often - Because airfares fluctuate like the stock market, you need to check them every day, sometimes two or three times a day, if you're serious about saving money. And another little tip: be sure to clear the "cookies" on your internet browser (on Explorer you do this under the "tools" menu and "internet options" sub menu). Why do this? If a fare changes between two separate searches done over time on the same route, some fare search engines may return the results you viewed earlier rather than the new results.

9. Combine Two Separate Fares Rather Than Buying One Fare - It's often cheaper to buy two fares rather than one. Let's say you're flying from New York to Eleuthera in the Bahamas. Check on one of the big sites like Expedia or Orbitz for a single fare (for example, JFK to Governor's Harbor, Bahamas) and then do two separate searches (JFK to Nassau and Nassau to Governor's Harbor). Since JetBlue flies JFK/Nassau you'll want to check JetBlue.com separately). Chances are the two-fare strategy will save you a lot of cash. This fare trick also works for flights to Europe (fly into London or Manchester, UK on one fare and then hop on a discount European airline to reach your final destination) and Asia. To search route possibilities on these discounters, check out the AirfareWatchdog route maps page.

10. Buy Tickets On An Airline That Will Refund The Difference If A Fare Goes Down - Let's say you've done your best to find the lowest fare, and then the day after purchase your non- refundable fare goes down $100 Sure, if you ask for it you can get a refund for the difference, but it's a little-known fact that some airlines will charge you a "service" or "administrative" fee as high as $100 for domestic fares or from $200-$300 on international ones, wiping out any savings. United, however, will give you the entire fare difference without extracting a fee, as will US Airways and JetBlue as long as you accept the reimbursement in the form of a voucher good for future travel. Northwest charges just $25, for both domestic and international fares. American and Delta extract the $100-$300 fees; Southwest gives you a credit for a future flight without charging a fee. Even on these less generous airlines, however, we've heard of plenty of instances where a polite entreaty will get you a full fare difference refund without the penalties, so it's worth try.

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TravelWorm

Orbitz

Kayak.com

Sidestep.com

CheapFlights

Travelocity

Expedia

Flights.com

Travel Zoo

Qixo

Web Fares

Alaska Airlines

Delta Air Lines

Site59

AutoEurope

RailEurope

Quikbook

Airport Parking Reservations

Hotwire.com

LastMinuteTravel.com

Cruises.com

GoAhead Tours

CruiseDirect.com

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To find out the details & restrictions or to book click HERE and follow these steps carefully:

Enter your departure and arrival cities in the "To" and "From" boxes,

Be sure to select the flexible dates option,

If your travel dates are flexible, but only within a month or more, use the pull down menu: "Search a wide range of travel dates". Then specify one or a range of months,

Click on "search flights",

Fares will pop up. Some of them will invariably be invalid fares. This is the nature of the beast.

Scan down the list until you see the fare we have listed.

Click on the blue "select" button to see a calendar of dates when the fare is supposedly available and on "fare rules" to see restrictions and other information.

Green dates mean good availability; blue dates means the fare is "offered" but seats may not be available; you should try clicking on those dates anyway.

Travelocity will give you the best chance of finding a good fare if you're even just a bit flexible in your travel dates, which is why we direct you to Travelocity first.

If a fare cannot be booked on Travelocity, or we're sure that a lower fare is available elsewhere, we will include a link or instructions to another site.

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Answer 4

Short answer: supply and demand. Long answer: it depends also on the season. For instance if you come to Brazil during carnival, it usually doesn't matter how early you book. It' going to be much more expensive than coming during any othert time of the year. Ask your travel agent to get you the best fare they can. In Brazil as in most other countries, there's a fierce competition between the airlines and this also leads to unpredictable rates. Sometimes the CEOs decide they want a larger share of the market and then their price goes down.

Answer 5

The closer to your flight time, the more the ticket will be.

Get it now, if you can.