Flight Prices (Long Haul) Summer 2023

hansgruber123

Some advice please. I am looking for flights to Japan in July. Currently around 5k for 4 people. This would normally be 3.5 k max!!!

So do i bite the bullet and book or is there a chance they will come down?

Scondly if i do book is it worth using a rewards CC to get the avios points?

Thanks

DullGreyGuy

When are you referring to as normally?

Well reported that flight costs are materially up given trying to recover from covid years, inflation, particularly high cost of fuel, longer routes avoiding flying over Russia etc.

You can wait but they're probably as likely to go up as down.

Avios points are great but you need to be committed collector to really make them worthwhile. If its just going to be 5k of avios and not any more then you can convert them to nectar but you may be better off with a different type of reward card

zagfles

As posted in the other thread see https://www.skyscanner.net/news/best-time-to-book-savings-generator

Doshwaster

Long haul, especially to East and SE Asia, seems to be up by at least 50%. Combination of increased demand (but capacity hasn't returned to pre-pandemic levels), higher fuel prices, staff shortages and Russian/Ukrainian airspace being closed. Can't see any prospect of prices coming down any time soon

TELLIT01

I'm guessing the OP is comparing with pre Covid prices, and certainly pre fuel cost increases.  It's not only long haul affected.  I've been checking European flights and they are at least 20% up.