Christmas in July: Is it time to shop for winter airfare bargains?
It’s been so blazin’ hot in this record-setting summer that it’s hard to even fathom the question: Is it time to start buying airline tickets for winter holiday travel to lock in a decent price?
The calendar knows what’s hard for our heat-addled minds to realize: Thanksgiving in the United States is only four months away, and Christmas and New Year’s is just a month later.
Christmas is definitely on the mind of 61-year-old John Leibach of Augusta, Georgia. An employee of an engineering firm, Leibach has deep roots in Germany and has gone to visit family in Mainstockheim, a small town in Bavaria, for decades.
He loves the Christmas markets there. “I find German Christmas is just a little less commercial … and this goes back to my childhood – my dad took us there a lot.”
Should Leibach buy those tickets soon? CNN Travel talked to experts about their prognosis for the winter holiday travel season and what would-be flyers looking for the least expensive seat possible should be doing now.
Before buying a ticket, it’s good to know what to anticipate in airports and this skies this winter.
It’s been so blazin’ hot in this record-setting summer that it’s hard to even fathom the question: Is it time to start buying airline tickets for winter holiday travel to lock in a decent price? The calendar knows what’s hard for our heat-addled minds to realize: Thanksgiving in the United States is only four months…