Originally Posted by
nomiiiii
I wanted to lock in an Austin-Seattle trip, where typical one-way pricing is alway $100-150. But if you look far in advance, alaska is only selling $500+ fares one-way on every single day. Fine, I'll book with delta instead who have released lower fare buckets already.
Looking at AS oneway nonstops on AUS-SEA, the most expensive flights I could find were over Thanksgiving, for $400, except for a number of days in March/April 2019 where it is indeed $541. Typical prices were $120-200, with higher prices ($300) around Thanksgiving and Christmas. So yes, if you are indeed trying to book a year out, what you are saying is (currently) true, but otherwise this is wrong.
Originally Posted by
nomiiiii
Same with Anchorage-Seattle route now, where alaska consistently prices itself almost $200+ one-way during the summer unless its closer in, while everyone from JetBlue/Delta and even SunCountry now are selling $100ish fares.
This seems mostly true. Alaska actually has the most competitive prices for July, but is about 50% more expensive than the cheapest of JetBlue/Sun Country/Delta in August and later.