Want to go to Grandma’s for Christmas?

Want to take a holiday break in a warmer clime?

Worried about what airline tickets could cost?

If you procrastinated on booking a flight, you might still have a shot at getting reasonably priced tickets – if you’re willing to play chicken with the airlines.

AAA analyzed 3 years of flights to identify the best times to reserve seats for Thanksgiving and Christmas travel and found that dawdlers got the best prices.

If you delay buying plane tickets, you might spend less than those who book early, but their options are likely to be less limited.

By those calculations, if you are willing to gamble on getting lower prices for Christmas, you will have to sweat it out until Dec. 12, Jo McGinty reported in The Wall Street Journal.

In the past, early bookers got better deals, but now they’re likely to pay more.

“A few years ago, the ideal booking window for holiday airfare might’ve been 30 to 60 days,” said Alexis Tiacoh of Expedia.com, a travel-booking website.

Her data now shows the best prices for holiday flights originating in the US, regardless of the destination, are available 2 weeks to a month ahead of travel.