they actually contacted me and told me that they will give you the lower price (with a $75 fee)... w

my wife and i are taking a 3 week trip to rural italy in may. have rented 3 villas for a week in each. the question now is; when to buy flight tickets? flying detroit to naples and then home florence/pisa/bologna (?) to detroit. have been checking various sites for the last 2 weeks and prices haven't changed much. i would like to book them now and the wife would like to wait until after the holidays. your experiences on booking hotel in die stadtmitte barcelona tickets.
If it was me, I'd get serious about looking about 8 weeks before and then snag the best fare. My daughter bought her tix to Europe this Past May about a month before her trip and got an excellent fare.
I would start watching hotel in die stadtmitte barcelona fares now and be ready to jump on a sale. You can sign up for fare alerts on a couple of sites. I use itasoftware.com to search flights (they are the company that runs the programming of many commercial sites). You can't buy on their website. You have to go to the airline and book after you find your flight.
I think only Milan and Rome have regularly scheduled flights landing from the states. Venice may have a few and Pisa has mostly seasonal. Florence and Bologna require changing planes in Europe somewhere hotel in die stadtmitte barcelona as does Naples. hotel in die stadtmitte barcelona Is Milan close to your final villa? hotel in die stadtmitte barcelona Are you renting cars?
i will say that, after the price drop, i sent a letter to my airline (united) saying that i felt they were manipulating fares to scare people into buying. (they dropped hotel in die stadtmitte barcelona and then raised and then dropped the fare the week before i bought... so i bought when they dropped... but then they seriously dropped.)
they actually contacted me and told me that they will give you the lower price (with a $75 fee)... which i had NO idea about. this was not a refundable ticket, and i had not purchased their fare guarantee add-on. so i did pay the $75 and saved $250 over my original price. just fyi.
thanks for responses. picking up a car in naples and then dropping it at departing airport. milan is a couple of hours drive from our northern tuscany villa. have found several 1 stop flights from florence or bologna via air france. milan fights seem similar but a little more expensive.
Most airlines charge $250 to change an international flight ticket if there is a price change. Here's a chart (not sure it's up to date) showing what the various airlines charge in price drop situations.
Read somewhere that optimum number of days is 34. May be this is true for North American flights but I don't agree that the same logic applies to European hotel in die stadtmitte barcelona ones. We usually hotel in die stadtmitte barcelona go to Portugal on TAP or SATA. Their pricing is broken into 5 classes (discount being the cheapest). I guess only a small percentage of seats is allocated to this class and when they are sold that's it. Difference between cheapest most expensive class is 2 times or more. Other European carriers once in a while have time limited sales (24 or 48 hrs, etc) so having signed up for their email notifications is not bad idea. Also consolidators should be able to sell for less. Here in Canada I can get the same Alitalia ticket for at least 10-15% cheaper than from alitalia.com