UPDATE: September 9th – Take this blog post, and substitute the city of New York for Philadelphia (PHL) or Charlotte (CLT) on United. They’ve dropped their prices to those cities down to about $329 roundtrip after taxes, across the board, throughout 2011 and 2012.

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Update Sep 8: For those that missed the United drop, Delta seems to have responded with massive cuts of their own, down to about $370 or so.

Delta’s cuts seems to have impacted flight prices up to about mid-May of 2012 with a large variety of dates available. And then in June there are some cheap ones, but with less dates available.

example: http://www.kayak.com/flights/#YVR-NYC/2012-06-13-flexible/2012-06-20-flexible

Same goes for July 2012, cheap ones are out there, but less dates available…

Don’t see anything for August.
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United just made a huge unadvertised price cut on their flights to New York’s LGA (Laguardia) airport. Typically, the bottom price from Vancouver to New York sticks around $550 roundtrip after taxes. So flights that are 35% cheaper than that bottom are definitely notable.

They seem to have dropped a large range of flights, from now all the way up until May 2012. There’s also some in June/July of 2012 for $40 more.

Here’s an example search in May 2012…

http://www.kayak.com/flights/YVR-NYC/2012-05-16-flexible/2012-05-23-flexible

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But try a flexible date search in any month and you should see something.

There’s even a decently priced one ($427) over the Christmas holidays New Years…

http://www.kayak.com/flights/#YVR-NYC/2011-12-21-flexible/2012-01-04-flexible

How long will this cut last? As always, it’s impossible to say. In my experience, unadvertised fare drops on United typically last about 24-48 hours at most.

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2 Responses to “Vancouver to New York City – $358 roundtrip after taxes”

1. Brigette on
   September 6th, 2011

   What you fail to mention is that there is a stop-over on these cheap flights. Lame.

2. Chris_Myden on
   September 6th, 2011

   So fly direct on Cathay Pacific for $657 if a stopover irks you. Nobody’s stopping you.

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