Quote Originally Posted by Canton Kev View Post
Flight prices have skyrocketed after lockdown, airlines went ~6 months with next to no income and a further 6-12 months with a reduced income so I’m assuming they’re trying to claw back anything they can.

I’ve not kept too keen an eye on prices (mostly just flights to Tokyo to see a friend) but in general they seem to be slowly coming down. Maybe if you hold off booking for a few months you’ll find better prices?

If you’ve not used them, sites like Skyscanner or Google Flights are good at finding deals if you’re flexible with your dates.
The reason why flight prices are all over the place is due to civid, but not necessarily for the reason you cite. Prior to covid the airline industry had years of data on supply and demand, they understood passengers needs, booking behaviours etc so knew when to put prices up and down to maximise revenues. Due to the covid crisis those behaviours are uncertain and so the airlines cant rely on years of data to predict supply/demand and when people are most likely to book. I think that theres probably still reluctance to book too far in advance so prices are not following previous fluctuation patterns, it will probably be years before they have enough evidence to ely on so flight prices are likely to remain higher for a while until new patterns emerge.