Is this with or without taxes? If that’s $428 all included I’d say lock it!

thats with taxes and insurance

IMHO, if you sure that your plans are not going to change, it makes sense to book this fare now.
I doubt you’d be able to find a much better deal, and that would probably require round the clock monitoring of all the booking channels from now on through the end of October.

lol scratch what i said about the price it just bumped up to 552.70 total per person…still good?

Well, if you ask me, this is a typical sale fare for this route. Good, but not spectacular. (I see $536 fare on Orbitz with United/Lufthansa if you leave one day earlier or one day later.) If you like the routing (direct flight / comfortable airline / convenient airport / frequent flier miles you can use) you may buy it and save yourself trouble looking any further. Otherwise you may well keep looking through the end of September / early October and see if you can do better.

thanks dude

Best I see for your exact dates is $544.55 from FlyCheapAbroad.com. Nonstop is coming up $568 from Newark (Continental.com).

According to FareCompare, it was as much as $86 cheaper last December, but that’s no guarantee for this year. Because you’re outbound around Christmas-time, fares are a little higher (vs. outbound early Dec. or mid-January). The cheapest fare I found $544 is from a consolidator, and those prices are locked, so your only hope would be a sale fare from the airlines.

If I was in your shoes, flying from NYC, I’d probably wait as long as the end of August, and watch fares closely for sales (sign up for alerts, etc.). I’d be ready to book as soon as I see something $100 cheaper, and wouldn’t expect more. But I’d also realize the risk of the fare going up, and that I might have to adjust plans and fly to Dublin, then switch to Amsterdam on separate tickets, or something like that.

Do you use kayak to monitor prices at all?

I do run Kayak whenever I’m searching through BookingBuddy. In this case, they’re showing $553; they were higher this morning when I checked.

 
now how would flying into dublin work? i chaged the date to dec 27th – jan 13th….once i see something around the 475 range to ams im booking it…

$549 if you look through sidestep.com. I bought my JFK-AMS ticket in February 2006 for travel in May of the same year. It was $520 but the week before I bought it and procrastined about booking it, it was some $350. Funny thing is that sidestep and all the other search engines weren’t coming up with it. I so happened to be on NWA site and found that ticket.
 
I say, in addition to looking at search engines, try going to sites that fly into amsterdam frequently. Esp. NWA and KLM.
 
Good luck. If I were you I would book now though.