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Hi all,
I think I have worked out airlines selling and clever ways never to lose out on getting the most out of their customers, here is my reasons why I have this thought. I regularly look at online flights to Istanbul and from Istanbul, I have so far booked 4 flights to Istanbul with British airways and Turkish airlines and here is my findings. If you book early enough you can get a good deal on a flight to Istanbul, then if you leave it a few weeks nearer the time you want to go the price goes up but also fluctulates. The same flight I booked went up by £48 English pounds from £159.00 to £207.00 after about three weeks (I check daily), the price had shot up to the £207, okay nothing unusual here but then with only a week to go before the actual flying date, the price had come down back to £159.00, surely with less time to go the flights would be fully booked and instead of going down the price would go up? with less time to go most people would have booked and there would be no available seats left so the prices should be higher. I have now made it quite a hobby to check flights every day sometimes three or four times a day and it is the same pattern. I conclude that if you panic and think there is not much time to book and think there will be no seats left or your travelling times have gone and go ahead chances are a few days later you will see the same flights and times available for less, it is a good ploy by airlines, panic the customer thinking less flights and travelling times left, hike the price up to make the money and then when they think there is not much activity bring the price down again. I sound like an anorak now but it pays to reasearch.
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