Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
attempting to book peak holiday to highly popular locates for 5 passengers less the 3 months out is likely to involve comprise. That has never been an easy option.
An option is to build the routing segment by segment. Start at the destination or original and build segment by segment until you arrive at a satisfactory outcome.
Those were just sample destinations - I'm looking for a cheap, quick, getaway. I did it a few years ago to CUN, booking about 6 weeks out. Guess I just got lucky. Is there a way to find out where the economy seats that are left are, and build a route to someplace "beachy" from that? How do I build the routing segment by segment?
Originally Posted by
mitchmu
You have chosen the most expensive time of the year. For many destinations, those dates are sold out. This is not a fault of the mileage program. Your best bet is to pick a business oriented route with no holiday leisure travel. But, in the last 2 years, I've noticed they cancel those flights rather than fly empty.
Your odds of getting saver inventory on those dates are very slim. Like, really close to zero. If you fly 2 weeks earlier or later, you will find space.
Unfortunately, that's the week my kids are out of school, so I don't have much flexibility there. I'm surprised this is so busy to leisure destinations - I figured everyone was going "home" to visit family over the holidays.... not trying to get away. That's usually what we do.
