Originally Posted by ZeekLTK

I will try waiting I guess, but it just feels like too much of a coincidence.

The route I was looking at was from Flint, MI to San Francisco on a Thursday and coming back on a Monday during the middle of February (no holidays, no major events, nothing, just a random weekend my girlfriend and I were going to use some vacation days for).

Makes no sense that the cost of this flight, which was listed at $315 for literally every single combination of days you could think of (several different weekends and flying on various days) all going up nearly $250/person other than their website noted that the route was being searched several times (by me and, most likely, ONLY me) and then hit a certain point where it jacked up the price for it to try to make me think "omg the price is rising, I better book it quick" - although it had the opposite effect, my thought was "well, I guess we'll look into going somewhere other than San Francisco - OR use a completely different airline to go there".

I mean, how many people are looking to fly from Flint to San Francisco on a random weekend in February? And how many of them are searching for it on a Monday night the week of Thanksgiving? There is no way that in the span of 4-5 hours enough people bought tickets for that route to raise the price that much. In fact, I would be shocked to learn if ANYONE bought a ticket for that route during that time. lol


*edit: I cleared my cache and searched on Kayak. Same weekend (same exact dates) for same airports (FNT-SFO) is $362 for American Airlines, but the Delta flights are still $561. I'm pretty convinced that somehow my searching on Delta triggered a price increase.... but maybe I'll get out the tinfoil hat anyways. lol