Are airline prices to Paris impacted by Valentine's Day, i.e. would the prices drop after Valentine's Day (June trip planning now)?

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I had a brief look at the public tariffs for Chicago-Paris as published by American Airlines, Air France and Lufthansa. This will be fairly representative as these three represent the major three groups who now control prices across the Atlantic. I compared the historical tariff as was in effect back in mid November 2016, the tariff in effect today, and the tariff presently scheduled to be effective on the 15th of February 2017.

Just looking at the lowest fares possible, which will not be available on all flights, if anything the price has dropped since November and that lower price remains in effect forward to the 15th of February.

The airlines can always launch a surprise sale which would bring the price down, and with a bit of work they can withdraw fares unexpectedly at about an hour's notice. They can also tinker with availability on any flights with instant effect (to prevent the cheapest fares being used on some of their flights). But an across-the-board price decrease does not appear to be on the horizon and the current fares do not seem to be time-limited.

Still we will see how good my predictions are next week.

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