Heather Wright has long been a fan of off-season travel, when the weather cools, crowds thin and prices drop significantly.
At least, that used to be the pattern heading into fall.
Wright, a tax accountant from Seattle, has been looking to take a trip with friends to Europe in November, possibly to Malta or Madeira. She plans to fly into whichever major European airport she can comfortably reach from the US for a good deal and take shorter flights onward from there. But she’s not finding the savings she expected.
“This fall is kind of weird. It just feels like the prices are a lot higher later into the season than they have been in the past,” said Wright, who has focused mostly on tracking airfare.
She’s not wrong.
