Sean brought up a great point today that I think should be addressed by the group (as I told him, if I make executive decisions while everyone else blindly follows, we're all in trouble), which is whether we should book airfare as a group. Currently the group stands as follows: Drew, Michelle, Sean, Eric, Brad, Leticia, Nick and Nick's mystery woman. That would mean booking airfare for 8 - which I assume would be problematic.
When searching for airfare for the Costa Rica honeymoon (still sounds weird to me - honeymoon) I mistakenly searched for a single person. Airfare and times were extremely generous - pretty much my exact minimum standards for flight length, leave times, etc. Upon realizing the mistake, I altered the search to reflect two passengers (honeymoons, I hear, just aren't the same without the other person) and found the flight length and times were more restrictive and costs went up. I could only imagine what would happen if the search were for 8 people.
Fortunately for us, we really don't have to start worrying about this until winter or even spring 2010. At that time we'll start tracking prices in an attempt to find the right time to buy. If you're insane and are worried that the economy will start picking up, meaning prices will follow, take solace in the fact that most economists would agree that the economy will only continue to plummet through the 3rd quarter of 2010. On top of that, deflation really hasn't set in and may make an uptick soon, meaning we may see the best possible prices right about when we should be searching anyway.
The basis of this Times article may be somewhat of a harbinger for next year's airfare searching: are today's low prices as good as it gets or will they be even lower next month? Not a bad environment for travelers - a nightmare for policymakers.
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