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$708 each to NY:eek:

waldo

try Tour America. Given how expensive flights have become to the west coast, their deals with the airlines become competitive, and they are bonded.

If booking direct, try and route via London (assuming a direct flight from London) - far less likely to get delayed due to weather if not routing through Chicago or NYC.

Glenbhoy

unklerosco wrote: »

Same here.. Haven't found any deals yet..

I've been back forward a fair bit over the last few years and there's no hurry in booking for december, in fact prices usually drop by end of september/early october - there is little chance of them increasing. You should expect to pay about €550 return max. Mid summer prices are usually about €800 and I have managed to get there for €425 in december, that was booked about mid october.
One thing to do is clear your history and cookies when going directly to airline sites, i got a quote €500 cheaper (for two of us) by clearing my cookies and history and going back to the same airline 5 minutes later. I'd been watching prices for a while prior to that, so had visited the site regularly.
The best deals are usually with American Airlines, Continental or US Airways.

Penisland

Glenbhoy wrote: »

I've been back forward a fair bit over the last few years and there's no hurry in booking for december, in fact prices usually drop by end of september/early october - there is little chance of them increasing. You should expect to pay about €550 return max. Mid summer prices are usually about €800 and I have managed to get there for €425 in december, that was booked about mid october.
One thing to do is clear your history and cookies when going directly to airline sites, i got a quote €500 cheaper (for two of us) by clearing my cookies and history and going back to the same airline 5 minutes later. I'd been watching prices for a while prior to that, so had visited the site regularly.
The best deals are usually with American Airlines, Continental or US Airways.

Nice tip

Harpy

unklerosco wrote: »

Same here.. Haven't found any deals yet..

yeah looking out for fllights to america myself now, last year we got an unbelievable deal from cheap tickets 150 euro return to boston with delta and that was with all taxes and charges i missed out on it cause i didn't have money on my credit card but my friends booked it.. then a few days later i saw flights with us airways for 175 euro return including all taxes and charges so booked that... we couldn't get over it, the only problem is we're looking at flights now and we're like we really dont want to pay 600 euro to get over haha... we just want our cheap flights again.

Glenbhoy

Harpy wrote: »

yeah looking out for fllights to america myself now, last year we got an unbelievable deal from cheap tickets 150 euro return to boston with delta and that was with all taxes and charges i missed out on it cause i didn't have money on my credit card but my friends booked it.. then a few days later i saw flights with us airways for 175 euro return including all taxes and charges so booked that... we couldn't get over it, the only problem is we're looking at flights now and we're like we really dont want to pay 600 euro to get over haha... we just want our cheap flights again.

Last year and the year before they sorta thought the recession was wee bump in the road that could be rode out, now they see it's the real deal, so capacity has been cut and there won't be many bargains like that unbelievable deal you got last year. (I'm finding that everywhere though, even supermarkets aren't giving the deals they were last year anymore, simply because they're not stocking up as much).

Glenbhoy

Penisland wrote: »

Nice tip

Yeah, i'd heard it rumoured before, but was shocked when it actually worked and the extent to which it worked.
Basically I'd been checking the AA website for LA flights for a while, went to book a week later and prices for 2 of us had gone from about €1000 up to €1500, I was sick as you can imagine, so I tried the auld delete history and cookies, went back in and got them for the €1000!!!

iggy82

ebookers seems to be the best place at the moment as far as I can see.

NewYork for €420 rtn each in early december seems a good price to me.

Actually cheaper than the same flights on the airlines website

pokermanpat

Hi

Looking to fly DUB - LAX on 31 July, returning 22 August. The cheapest flight I can find is $1,400. Have I left it to late or is there any deals out there?? The strong dollar isn't exactly helping either!

Thanks for your help in advance

EI111

iggy82 wrote: »

ebookers seems to be the best place at the moment as far as I can see.

NewYork for €420 rtn each in early december seems a good price to me.

Actually cheaper than the same flights on the airlines website

crazy to think i paid 230 return to america last may

Glenbhoy

pokermanpat wrote: »

Hi

Looking to fly DUB - LAX on 31 July, returning 22 August. The cheapest flight I can find is $1,400. Have I left it to late or is there any deals out there?? The strong dollar isn't exactly helping either!

Thanks for your help in advance

it's late, but there weren't many deals about anyway. i am going to lax round the same time and eventually had to take €840 with continental, booked about 3 weeks ago, the cheapest I could have got was about €750 back in March when it was confirmed i had to go.

The cheapest I can see is €1133 with american airlines but that's from the 3/8 to 23/8. Skyscanner.ie throws up a few around the same price too on the actual travel dates you want.

It's also a good idea to sign up with their reward programmes if possible as you never know, another flight or two and you could end up with a free flight to NY.

slave1

Aer Lungus ain't too bad, bagged return flights (direct) for 5 next Easter to Orlando for €2600

mad m

EI111 wrote: »

crazy to think i paid 230 return to america last may

Paid 1200euro return to San Francisco last December for 2 adults and 2 kids, actually the eldest was classed as an adult at 13years.

Got them for 3k for next month for LAX, they are now over 5k....