Do you always book your flights on the release date ?

[Whoppery5k]

May I ask what you paid and what they went up too?

[Beth_Disney]

Originally Posted by Whoppery5k

May I ask what you paid and what they went up too?

See more...

Well, I've just checked the price if I booked today and all I can say is WOW!

We paid £708 each for direct flights and car hire, booked at 9am (ish) on flight release day. This increased to just under £1000 each later that day and has just continued to increase. I've just priced the same trip up and it's now £1621 each! Although, we could bring the price down to £1159 with indirect flights.

[hellin family]

Originally Posted by daffodil92

Crickey! Those are huge jumps! Is that per person or for a number of you ?
I am looking to book 6 tickets for next August and I figure my release date is going to be this Thursday. I have work on Thursday but if the price difference is that much I’m going to have to try to stay up or at least set an early alarm!

See more...

That's for the four of us - 2 ad, 1 teen, 1 child. Direct flights into Tampa - we can't afford to fly to Orlando

[Bee happy]

My release day is today, I checked flights with BA around 6.30am they were a lot more than hoping for so didn't book. I looked again at around 9am and they've gone up another £1k ish. We usually book in Oct for end of Aug I just hope they come down a bit 🤞🤞🤞🤞

[SteveyJ]

Depends if I'm happy with the price. Would rather get them booked ASAP and not have to think about them again than get close to the holiday and be sweating on how we're getting there.

[ghints]

Originally Posted by ghints

We typically book on release date and this year, due to some work commitments, I had actually looked at BA pricing literally as they release compared to later in the day. As a result, I got up at 1am the day the return flight released and saved about £150 on the cost of flights at 8am and c.£300 on the prices later that day.

Having tracked pricing keenly for a couple of weeks, it might just be this year but BA's summer 2022 prices seem to normally be cheaper on the day of release... and even cheaper the hour of release !

Worth doing your own tracking before setting that alarm, though !

See more...

UPDATE... just checked same flights on BA.com today and they are now £600 more expensive than we paid (5 people). Good luck DiBBers !

[bubster20]

I agree that it looks like cheapest on release day at the moment…I booked our trip for 12/6-9/7/22 with BA on release day, it’s gone up precisely £3015 since then!

I have never check prices once booked but I noticed at the end of Aug their sale had started so thought I’d have a look…never been so relieved!

[tspill]

I would always look for flights on release dates as I have in the majority of cases over 20 years have found them cheapest. If I see a good price I book.
However, our dates are now very flexible so can pick and choose dates so that may change things for us

[Bee happy]

I'm considering booking my BA flydrive now even though it's gone up substantially since this morning but I'm worried it will go up more if I don't 😮
We will be covered by BA flexible booking policy and if flights drop in price we can change them, I did the same thing for this year's flights although obviously cancelled in the end 🤦

[Hula Doola]

Originally Posted by Bee happy

My release day is today, I checked flights with BA around 6.30am they were a lot more than hoping for so didn't book. I looked again at around 9am and they've gone up another £1k ish. We usually book in Oct for end of Aug I just hope they come down a bit 🤞🤞🤞🤞

See more...

This was my experience earlier in the year for May dates, I only booked the flights yesterday having checked daily since then whilst they just kept climbing. Sudden brief dip yesterday - still higher than I originally hoped for but by now I have realised that my original number was obviously unrealistic! Today the same flights have jumped back up by £650 (for 4 of us) so be ready to pounce when you do see a price you can work with 🤞