Quote: Originally Posted by Opice34 Hi!
I know gas prices are incredible right now, but I just can't believe the airfare hike for trips to Cancun! Has anyone found any reasonable fares?
We are going down there with our parents in June (which is the high season, I know) and my parents had to pay $700/ticket from HOUSTON! That's less than a 2 hour flight and we're used to paying around $200!
We're getting married in the low season (November), so I'm hoping rates will go down, but right now they are ~$500. The good news is we have a large Northeast contingent and they can get tickets for around $200. But the Texas folks are screwed!
I tried to get a group rate through Continental and they said we could only do that if everyone was flying on the same flight. We have people coming from all over the place, so that won't work.
Could a TA help with this? Even if everyone is flying from different parts of the country and probably on different days? We're expecting about 120 people, but with these rates we'll probably be lucky to get 10!
Is anyone having the same issue?
I've been looking at booking a trip to VA, and I can't believe how much the airfare is for that. It is crazy! We booked our Mexico trip before the airlines started going crazy with prices and I am so glad that we did. We are working with a TA and tried to get a group rate, but we would have had to have 20 people all flying on the same dates to get it, but we had to pay a $100 pp deposit and write up a contract for it. We couldn't get that many people to agree on traveling the same dates and the discount really wouldn't have been that much.