Originally Posted by
czpdx
There's research that I've seen on other threads that mentions that the best time to find the cheapest price on a ticket is roughly around eight weeks out from the travel date (with wild variations on this rule for different routes and dates, of course), so the AS flights are almost certain to drop between now and Christmas (before they go up again at the last minute).
Christmas and Thanksgiving flights can often be the exception to the above rule.
Last year I booked my thanksgiving trip to TPA and Christmas to NYC about ten months out. In both cases, the fare never dropped - at least none of the times I checked. The fares definitely did rise though.
There's little harm to booking it now. You can grab a fare credit if the price goes down, although this requires you to monitor the price frequently. You also wouldn't incur a change fee if made before the 60 day window... So if a different flight goes down in price, you could change to that.