Depends where you’re travelling from, how flexible you are with dates and destinations, and, most importantly, when (ie, which season) you want to travel. Transatlantic, for example, is most expensive in summer—from June-August generally—due to very high demand. For these, you should book around January or February for the best combination of price and seat availability. That’s not to say that seat sales don’t pop up after February—it’s just usually for limited dates, limited cities, and summer “sales” aren’t nearly as cheap as they are for winter, spring, or fall.

Transatlantic in winter, for example, I would book as late as 14 days advance, because demand is lower, and airlines usually have a lot of sales in winter to help fill seats.

I am talking about Fall/Spring transatlantic flights.
(eg. oct/nov, april/may)

Transatlantic spring/fall, generally, is fine to wait as late as 21 days advance—as long as you’re not trying to travel over a holiday (on either end of travel), or within a few days of peak season (starting early June, ending late August—most airlines). I’d like to offer you more specifics—where will you fly from, and where would you like to visit? I ask because there are some sub-strategies depending where exactly you need to travel. From Toronto, for example, I’ve noticed Canadian Affair offering discounted seats for last-minute that weren’t showing up 2 months ago—but this is unusual. I would advise differently if you’re flying from, say, Las Vegas vs. from New Orleans.

I dont have many specifics yet. I am planning to fly either this October or next April (after Holy week) JFK-BCN, CDG-JFK with flexible dates. (any day is ok for me).
I usually prefer non stop flights and I don’t mind paying a bit more for that, as long is not 300 more….
I haven’t really start looking in detail, but I saw non stop flights for USD 600, which I think it is a bit expensive.

You’re in one of the best markets to get great transatlantic airfares (you probably already know this!). In recent years, transatlantic base fares (the price before taxes and required airport fees) would sometimes dip under $200 round trip in winter. This meant that $300 round trips, with all taxes included, were fairly normal for travel Nov-March (except around Christmas).

Since January, transatlantic flights to/from the UK have and additional £20 ($40 USD) — each way— tacked on. This in addition to taxes and fees that already averaged over $100 on North America-UK roundtrip flights.

Additionally, most airlines are including fuel surcharges of $110 to $160 on transatlantic roundtrips.

So… a $300 total fare a few winters ago, has now become $500+.

For October, I believe $600 is a good target price. Nonstops would be bonus. This might help: http://www.cheapflig… … as well as this: =1” title=“http://www.farecompare.com/search/year.html?departure=NYC&destination=PAR&amp=1”>http://www.farecompa… — you can change the arrival cities on each one. The latter has a fare alert email sign-up that could be helpful.

For multi-city, when it comes down to actual booking, it’s best to either go via Orbitz, and pay their extra booking fee ($5 if I recall), or if it’s the same airline, then via the airline’s own website. American Air JFK-LHR, and CDG-JFK for example.

Since October is still several months away, personally, I’d shop for package prices (see my Paris thanksgiving $389 thread with links to package discounters) to see if anything struck my fancy. Hotel costs can be quite high for these cities, and getting hotel together with air is often a significant discount—when they’re available. British Airways has been doing air+hotel offers 2-3 times per year, too.

It depends.  I needed pretty specific dates for my trip this summer, and I found a good deal at Christmas, so I bought my ticket then.

im flying from JFK to AMS which seems to be the cheapest when do you think i shoudl book my flight…i have 428 us soo far is teh lowest

You need to be specific.
Which day are you flying ?

sctratch that price lol too late….dec 27th until january 13th

As Don mentioned in your other thread, USD 557 from JFK on bookingbuddy.
I guess you know that already…
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