Originally Posted by jkatzen

What are the fare classes? Are LUT fares available, or are they all booking at K and above?

If it's not pricing with LUTs (only K+), I'd book a week or two at a time and wait before buying the further-out ones, as K is generally available at 7+ days of advanced purchase. Then, if they open up cheaper LUT fares later on for the longer-out flights, you can grab them.

I used to fly DCA-ATL-DCA every 2-3 weeks. Sometimes I'd find that the normal pricing of ~$250-300 would all of a sudden be $500 infinitely out. After a few weeks, it'd drop back down again. Not sure of the reasoning. They might be reading some sort of increase in demand based on ticketing date not flight date, expecting a lot of tickets to be bought right now.

On the other hand, if Jackson lost a carrier recently, it could be that prices just increased based on longer term market forces, and if so, that might just the way of life going forward there.