This is a hot topic in my family right now.
Bestfares.com says Thanksgiving and Christmas travel this year will be the "one of the most expensive holiday travel seasons ever."
USA TODAY says you should be checking fares and booking deals right now.
USA Today points out that by this fall, there will about 9 percent fewer flights than last year after airlines cut their inventory of seats and drive up prices.
The story continues:
For example, the cheapest nonstop fare for travel between Dallas/Fort Worth airport and Cancun, Mexico, on Dec. 18 is $350 each way, excluding airport and airline fees. But when this year's holiday travel season begins on Dec. 19, the DFW-Cancun fare rises to $377 each way, with only a tightly limited supply of seats at that price. On Dec. 26, the cheapest fare jumps to $550 each way, again with only a small number of seats available at that price.
On Sunday, Jan. 4, the peak day for return travel from warm-destination vacations, the Cancun-DFW fare rises yet again to $604 one way.
"They'll be tweaking and tweaking these prices all fall," (Bestfare.com's Tom) Parsons says, and "they'll take them way up" on the most popular days.
... but there's something hinky to it. Maybe it's that...
