Booking Airfare
I just finished booking online a one-way airline ticket for my sister. I’ve purchased many airline tickets online in the past, but I found today to be quite interesting because the fares were changing right before my eyes!
My sister is driving out to Arizona with my Mom so that our mom doesn’t have to drive by herself. To get home, she needs to fly and she gets very stressed about the whole flying ordeal. So, I offered to help her find a flight. We’ve been doing this for several weeks now and she finally decided on a date to fly home. I checked fares yesterday and they had actually come down from a few weeks ago so I told her she should go ahead and book it.
Well, I got busy doing other things yesterday and didn’t get back with her to book the flight. She called me this morning anxious about it and so I got right on the computer and looked up the fares using the same websites I had used before. The fares were much higher, in some cases, sever hundred dollars higher. What was really strange though was that I found if I closed a site and went back into it, it would bring up different fares! I’ve never had that happen before, very strange.
Anyway, I did finally find her a good flight at only $20 more than what I found yesterday and so we booked it. The only thing that makes me nervous is that I booked it through a website I’ve never used before and so I’m hoping there will be no problems.
