Purchasing tickets
 

Traveling from Boston to Phoenix in late May. The best price I got is 290.RT. Any advice on when I should purchase. Do prices normally drop or rise when approaching departure?

Welcome to FT.

Airline prices are probably less predictable in terms of the prices. As long as it's not a holiday, expect the prices to fluctuate. So far, I think the best time to buy them is around 10-14 days before departure. Try to do the booking on a Tue or Wed as prices may be lower. No hard rule, but I was planning a trip on 1/4 and it's been sitting at $222 for a while. It was still that price yesterday. I just checked today and it's down to $150.

I've watched the Boston/Phoenix route for a number of years. Anything under $300 is a good fare.

Keep in mind that with jetBlue, the timing is not that important. You can always buy the ticket, set up a yapta alert and if the price goes down, simply go on the jetBlue site to "change" your flight to the same one you are on. This will automatically book you at the lower rate and credit the difference to your True Blue account.

Thanks for that tip :) Didn't know your can do that without incurring change fees after 24 hours.

I am not familiar with "yapta".

????

Tnx.

Looks interesting.

Thank you
 

Thank you all for your response. I will try Yapta

But a terrible app. Tried and should have read the reviews. Wasted time.