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Old May 5, 2009 | 9:12 pm
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djk7
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Originally Posted by lydia
I have been checking rates PHL to STT for quite awhile on the US site. I just checked with Orbitz and Travelocity and both sites are cheaper by $80 all in. This is for travel in the second week of September.

I have never used either of the two sites. Should I? Should I wait?

Thanks,
Lydia
Hard to say if you should wait, without knowing the actual prices you are seeing. My experience is that sometimes these sites have stale info. They price from their database, but when you go to buy, they actually check with the airline, and you get the dreaded "this price is no longer available" screen. If that is not the case and they are offering fares you can live with, go for it.

As kudzu mentioned, prices go up, prices go down. My threshold at this point would be if they were under $275 or so, I would buy, otherwise wait a bit. And if you buy and they go down, it happens, you can't expect to buy the cheapest ticket on every flight you take.
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