Flights to New York

[ravenhair]

For months now, if not years, I have seen ads for and heard about flights to NY for around �200. Now that I actually want to go, I can't find anything for under �400. Where am I going wrong?

[geofbob]

There could be several reasons for your difficulty. First, there's your date of travel; if it's in the near future, you're in the high season when prices are correspondingly higher. Then there's the question of how and where you are looking for your ticket(s); I've always found newspaper and teletext ads quite unreliable; and it's a lot easier to find cheap flights in London than the provinces. You may be better off trying to book online; I've just been looking at the fairly new website Opodo - http://www.opodo.com/ - and there seem to be return flights to NY for around �300.

[beetlebug]

Keep trying!!!! I've recentley booked a flight with the above mentioned Opodo for 7 of us to travel to NYC in August for �198 each flying with Virgin Atlantic. These flights are few and far between during the high season and it took weeks of being on the net for hours at a time to find this flight. What you should also tke note of is that Opodo often changes the prices at any given time, I know this because when I tried to book another seat at the same price some hours later the price went from �198 to �567. You could also try booking a flight in the low season, you are more likely to find those magic �200 fares although they may be non direct flights with airlines like Air France, Air India, American Airlines and Air Kuwait. Good luck!