the reason I booked early was because of my work schedule I had to take this EXACT flight on the EXACT date and was concerned it would be full. I am doing a trek which starts on a fixed date.. I do have a couple days buffer in case flights are delayed but this particular itinerary worked out the best for me.
So the price was really high around $1600 and sat that way for about 2 months so I waited, one day it suddenly fell to $1230 so I jumped and locked that in. A few days after I booked it went back up to $1550 or so, thought I got lucky but then 2 weeks later it fell to $1100 and now it's $920!!!
So question is, if the flight wasn't selling then why not drop from $1600 to $920 in one shot instead of going on a roller coaster ride over a period of 2 weeks? Who controls these prices? is it a computer?