I'm not as schooled in good fares as the rest of the bunch, but if I see a number that doesn't trigger an irregular heartbeat, I'm inclined to go for it.

Dick Marcinko used that in a few of his books, IIRC.

As that Y as in full Y with no restrictions (easily upgraded with just a handful of OnePass miles)? Or Y as in generic "get your @ss to the back of the plane where the seats suck, you cheap b@sta@rd."

It's not a great deal, but it isn't a rip-off, either. Then again, I am accustomed to IAH TATL prices. I would take $680 in March to CDG without qualms. However, I imagine competition on the East Coast yields better deals most of the time.

My old man is a big golfer and has a corporate membership at The Woodlands CC but evidently that wasnt good enough so they just bought a lot at Carlton Woods (for the club). Not sure if they plan on building something or not. IMO, WASTE OF $$$.

It would be the latter, I'm afraid. Even expanding my search to include JFK doesn't yield better fares. The trips dates would be 2/27 - 03/04, so I'd think that would be a bit of the low season.

Ah, I thought you were mid or late march (Spring Break Season). There ought to be better deals than $680 around for that early. Wait until after Christmas when the airlines start bricking themselves, realizing that they either need to drop fares (with $40BBL Oil, why not), or cut capacity to non-existence.

Yeah...I'd think it was just fine for an IAH fare but would expect sub-$500 for NYC at that time of year. Maybe I'm just being greedy/unreasonable.

Perhaps it is acceptable written slang. In spoken French, it certainly is used.

During any period that remotely could be considered spring break time by CO, I have not seen fares to Europe that low since circa 2003.

Yep, but he's looking at late-Feb to March 4th (I was initially thinking Spring Break, as well). He should be able to do better for those dates.

I refuse to even look at IAH-Mexico fares in March, other than for pure comedic value.

My god the box is hopping today. I just had to go through almost four pages of posts.

The only thing that concerns me is that the 10PM flight on the 767 is fairly full in the non-elite Y section (the return is flat out empty), so I don't know if they would bother reducing the fare all that much.

True. I concur.