Emirates Prices

[TheHighlander]

Hi All,

Have been looking to book the Maldives as we have been the past couple of years and fancied going back to the same Island as last year.

Anyway the price difference since Wednesday has varied from £50 to £720 so decided to book it tonight as it's the cheapest I've seen it.

Worked out £160 more than we paid in September last year which I thought was not bad, the other island we went to (Kuredu) has gone up £1700 in 2 years.

How can the prices fluctuate so much in such a short space of time?

[Kenty]

I look for quite a long time for flights for our trips, you get a big variation when the business savers are sold and goes to flex flights so I tend to book along way in advance. I believe economy varies upwards mainly as the seats fill up.
I have just booked to the Maldives in November and got business saver which is a result but you do have to fork out a long way ahead as a rule.

[schmalex]

I fly EK every few weeks. In fact, I'm sitting in 23A of EK6 as I write this on the first leg of this week's trip to KL. Their prices are all over the place. My return to Asia can vary by as much as £1,000 from week to week. I assume they have some funky load matching software that forward calculates the load and maximises the potential yield for them...

[Kenty]

Do you think they might have something like a cookie that increases prices whenever you return to the price checking page! Lol

[Kenty]

schmalex said:

I fly EK every few weeks. In fact, I'm sitting in 23A of EK6 as I write this on the first leg of this week's trip to KL. Their prices are all over the place. My return to Asia can vary by as much as £1,000 from week to week. I assume they have some funky load matching software that forward calculates the load and maximises the potential yield for them...

Spooky! I was on a6-EER a couple of weeks ago, 14J or 14K I think!