Travel

She said that when I was able to fly roundtrip from Portland to Minneapolis for $198 after weeks of seeing only $550 fares. The price dropped by more than half overnight.

It's a gamble. You just have to keep checking back, because the fares depend on how easily they're able to fill up the planes at the higher prices. However, if a flight is TOO empty, they'll cancel it at the last minute and pack the passengers onto other flights.

Right now, I'm trying to fly to Hawaii for a convention in June, and I'm seeing very high prices. I'll have to keep checking every week.

(As for the taunt that airlines have slashed services because customers care only about price, only an idiot would pay more than they had to for flying under today's cramped, stressful conditions.)