Peas that are expert at buying plane tickets....

You should start watching them now... usually the sweet spot where you can find seats and the price is reasonable is around the three months mark.

I recommend Hopper to watch it will tell you when you have a good deal.

I don't know - that's prime spring break time. I would usually agree that they'll often go down around 3 months out - but I'm not as confident about that route at that time of year.

50-60 days prior to travel usually lends the best deals.

Except in this case in smack in the middle of lots of spring breaks. I wouldn't buy now, but I also would buy This fall, unless you see a few weeks worth of an upward trend, not January or early February.

I start looking at six months out, and if I don't like the price, I watch it until four months out. After that, I start getting serious about buying lest I end up in a jam either in availability or rising prices.

Right now, a lot of airlines don't have their schedules firm that far out. They are offering tickets based on past patterns, not actual flights, so it's very possible the time will change by a lot. Like several hours, and you've already given your non-refundable money to the airline. You're at the mercy of whatever they come up for you in terms of time.

I used the Hopper app to track flights recently. It looked like I was getting pretty good feedback from it as I watched the prices on other sites too.