Go the carriers website and select your flight. Click on view seats. If they are already mostly full don't expect a reduction. We fly Delta 1st class for a two week trip in the end of July or early August every year. In mid January I start checking flights leaving for two weeks from February to September just to see what the going rate was. I start to track the prices. When I see the flight I want at or near their lowest available I book. For this year their lowest 1st Class fare was $1101 and their highest was $2568. Our particular flight started out at $1558 then out of the blue dropped to $1191 for one day. I bought them then and have continued to track the prices and bookings. The price rose to $1241, then $1324, then dropped for two days back to $1191. Since then it has been mostly straight up to the current $2568. I check the seat availability and each day there are fewer. The flight is still three months out and there are only a 2 coach seats, 12 preferred, and 8 first class seats left. Delta has no reason to reduce those remaining tickets until the very last minute. Currently the coach ticket on our flight is more than my 1st class, and it is for those two final seats sitting a great distance apart. In past years prices started high, reached their low points 90-120 days out, and then climbed until the final week before takeoff.
