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Well, February is winter and low season, so I expect that ticket prices would be lower, no?
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dpkg chopra posted:Well, February is winter and low season, so I expect that ticket prices would be lower, no? Yeah good point, that's probably part of it, but also Turkish Airlines was a a direct flight which tend to be more expensive. Since this is a firm date I'm not sure if it would be worth gambling on something cheaper showing up 
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dpkg chopra posted:Well, February is winter and low season, so I expect that ticket prices would be lower, no?
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I just thought this was a funny routing from Hartford to Nashville: Spirit Airlines $345 RT BDL - MYR - EWR - BNA Fly to Florida and back just to get in position for their one route to Nashville.
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I met a dude on a MIA-ATL flight whose final destination was Fort Myers. I thought he was kidding, at first, but he said that this route was comped by work, and the direct one wasn't.
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Jan 29, 2023 16:34
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I'm surprised there is even a direct flight, it's a 2.5 hour drive. Maybe it's worth it if you don't have and don't need a car, but in Florida you pretty much need a car to get anywhere.
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I regularly get offered MKE-CLT-IND and MKE-DFW-IND for when I need to go to IND. I wind up driving because even the more sane connections (MKE-DTW/MSP-IND, as an example) take five or six hours by the time you get there and I can drive it in four (or slightly more if Chicago traffic is being particularly  that day).
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Ok, so I posted a few months back about ticket prices , just checking in to make sure I’m looking at it right. Scenario: flying from St. Louis to Kauai (Hawaii) , round trip, end of July through first week august. Reason: friends marriage Analysis / issue: whelp, my guess is that this is probably the worst time cost wise to travel. Prices are still what they were in November (I wasn’t exactly surprised). In general, I think a departure of Thurs July 27th , and a return of Friday the 4th or sat the 5th (if I can swing it a few days longer even better just vacation wise) is what makes sense. Still looking at $1300 a ticket (it’s two of us) round trip give or take. Chicago is the nearest “big city” and seems similar. If it comes to it, we’ll pay it and move on, just curious if anyone has anything I am missing?
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Duckman2008 posted:Ok, so I posted a few months back about ticket prices , just checking in to make sure I’m looking at it right. You could save a couple hundred bucks flying out of Nashville, as I see BNA-KOA on Delta for $808, but that's an early departure out of BNA so you'd have to get down there the night before and have a hotel and whatnot. But that may make sense if the difference is $1000.
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Beef Of Ages posted:You could save a couple hundred bucks flying out of Nashville, as I see BNA-KOA on Delta for $808, but that's an early departure out of BNA so you'd have to get down there the night before and have a hotel and whatnot. But that may make sense if the difference is $1000. Oh I’ll check this out. My bad though, we are flying to Kauai specifically (LIH) so KOA wouldn’t quite due the trick.
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I'm seeing $1000 flights for those dates, unless I fat fingered something. The other thing you can try is pricing flights to Honolulu and then booking the inter-island flight separately, those are generally pretty cheap and frequent.
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smackfu posted:I'm seeing $1000 flights for those dates, unless I fat fingered something. Yeah I was looking at Alaskan and American , but it looks like Southwest is a bit lower at $1,000-1,100 round trip per person. I don’t fly that much, but never had an issue with Southwest in the past and actually somewhat enjoyed flying Southwest. Just to check: should the poo poo that went down over December change that, or was that a bad one time meltdown / they’re gonna be on their toes for a bit as a result ?
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They will be nowhere near fixing the underlying problem that made it such a disaster but the triggering circumstances are somewhat unlikely to recur. You're gambling when you take them that there won't be an event that simultaneously shuts down two or more airports they run a lot of flights through. They are making a big deal about "fixing their crew scheduling software" this week because that got all the bad press but all their computer infrastructure is old and rickety and next time it'll be something else like their baggage handling software that falls over.
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I'm going to a wedding in Poland in late June. I'm flying from Chicago and planning on an open jaw trip (ORD->FRA->WAW; VIE->ORD). I first checked the price on Lufthansa's site around Christmas, $1,200 round-trip. The next day when I went to pull the trigger, the price shot up to $1,500. It's been more or less there ever since. Is there any truth to the notion that the cheapest prices are to be had four months before your leave date?
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I noticed the same thing last month with different US -> European cities, but it wasn’t four months, more like 90 days before the flights.
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I'm trying to book a flight with miles and don't see the return flight available for miles, only for cash. UA108 on 4/16 (IAD to muc) shows up fine, but UA8860 aka Lufthansa 452 (Muc to lax) doesn't. Miles shows me a bunch of Lufthansa flight options for the return, but not the direct. Any chance it becomes available later, or I can book with united miles via Lufthansa for this?
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The Vikings posted:I'm trying to book a flight with miles and don't see the return flight available for miles, only for cash. UA108 on 4/16 (IAD to muc) shows up fine, but UA8860 aka Lufthansa 452 (Muc to lax) doesn't. Miles shows me a bunch of Lufthansa flight options for the return, but not the direct. Any chance it becomes available later, or I can book with united miles via Lufthansa for this? Apologies for not seeing this sooner. Award availability is always wonky; it could become available at any time. Alerts via a paid ExpertFlyer membership is the easiest way to go about waiting for the I fare bucket to open. But even then, there's no guarantee that it will. And no, you can't use UA miles via Lufty. Partners don't always have the same availability and some keep some rewards for the customers of their loyalty program specifically so again, it's often a crapshoot.
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Under the very very broad conditions of "I need to take a week or so off work over the next two months, so I should probably fly wherever", how do I find the cheapest possible flight to literally wherever (i.e, I'm more interested in how cheap the flight is than the destination)? Country of origin is Israel, and I've been told there are no more cheap flights from airports other than Ben Gurion (TLV). Xander77 fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Apr 24, 2023 |
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Xander77 posted:Under the very very broad conditions of "I need to take a week or so off work over the next two months, so I should probably fly wherever", how do I find the cheapest possible flight to wherever? Kayak has a pretty handy map which I sometimes use exactly for this time of situation. I think google had a similar tool somewhere? https://www.kayak.com/explore/TLV-anywhere/20230501,20230630 I've flown to Tel Aviv and Eilat before with Ryanair so that's an option too, the Fare Finder works pretty well for this https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/cheap-flights/?from=TLV&out-from-date=2023-04-23&out-to-date=2024-04-23&budget=150 Wizzair has a similar thing going here: https://wizzair.com/en-gb/cheap-flights
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Google Flights has the Explore feature as well, spin the wheel and see where you land.
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Is there any appreciable difference between American, Delta and Alaska for flying between Phoenix, Seattle and Las Vegas? They seem to be my options for direct flights (plus Spirit, but I've heard they're pretty poo poo). Should I just get whatever's cheapest or is there one to avoid?
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greazeball posted:Is there any appreciable difference between American, Delta and Alaska for flying between Phoenix, Seattle and Las Vegas? They seem to be my options for direct flights (plus Spirit, but I've heard they're pretty poo poo). Should I just get whatever's cheapest or is there one to avoid? If you're flying in economy, given those options you should fly on price followed by schedule. Spirit is sort of ok usually for nonstop flights if you're traveling light but there is slightly more risk there.
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I want to buy four tickets on Vueling for a flight from VLC to FCO in November. What is a bit weird to me is if I tell it I just want one ticket the price is €59, but when I say four the price is €69 each. As far as I can tell the tickets are the same so what gives? Either way you still have to pay extra to choose a seat or bring more liggage. My guess is the four tickets bought together will be assigned seats next to each other, maybe? But if I am going to pay an extra few bucks to pick my seats then that doesn't matter. I am tempted to book the four tickets separately Just Because. Or is there something else I am missing?
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Yeah, there are lots of different fare buckets that are representative of different price points, time-based availability, capacity, changeability, refundability, and other sundry restrictions that make up the fare rules for a given ticket. That same seat exists in multiple of those fare buckets at the same time depending on the parameters of what is being requested. In this case, there was at least one seat in the fare bucket that was priced at €59 but not four seats; four seats from a capacity standpoint only existed in the bucket that was priced at €69. It's how airlines manage their yields; only so many seats are available at the lower fares. Generally, the more seats sold, the higher the price thanks to the laws of supply and demand. It's much more complicated than X number of seats at Y price.
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if 10 quid is a dealbreaker then you shouldn't be traveling at all
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peanut posted:if 10 quid is a dealbreaker then you shouldn't be traveling at all it's not peanut, I was just trying to understand why it changed. Thabk you all for the explanation, that was exactly it. Turned out there were three tickets left at the cheaper rate so I got those. I paid a bit more for the fourth but I was needing to buy it separately anyway since I wanted to have one extra carryon for the group and when buying them all together that was an all or nothing proposition.
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Any tips or advice on a good price to Vietnam/Thailand from the US East coast? I saw one from NYC to Ho Chi Minh for ~$1000 round trip in september. That seems like a good deal?
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goodness posted:Any tips or advice on a good price to Vietnam/Thailand from the US East coast? I saw one from NYC to Ho Chi Minh for ~$1000 round trip in september. That seems like a good deal? I don't see anything dramatically better. Lots of options in that price range though and some economy experiences are better than others so I'm happy to look in more detail if you'd like.
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That's a pretty good deal from the east coast. A couple of months ago I got tickets from Atlanta to HCMC in November for $700. I heard about them through Going/Scott's Cheap Flights and was able to book them directly through Air Canada, so no intermediary shenanigans (e.g. Priceline).
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Fitzy Fitz posted:That's a pretty good deal from the east coast. A couple of months ago I got tickets from Atlanta to HCMC in November for $700. I heard about them through Going/Scott's Cheap Flights and was able to book them directly through Air Canada, so no intermediary shenanigans (e.g. Priceline). This is the way (and that's a good fare).
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Are Europe plane tickets this Spring/Summer just insane? My typical Amsterdam trip is an extra $1k 
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Crosby B. Alfred posted:Are Europe plane tickets this Spring/Summer just insane? My typical Amsterdam trip is an extra $1k Yeah, for some reason I never figured out, flights USA-Europe-USA are often double the price of flights Europe-USA-Europe. Like I can get a direct summer round trip from Zurich to Los Angeles right now for $750, but the other direction on the same carrier (Swiss) it’s $1800. I see other tickets for like $1300 with one change in Toronto, just not the direct. You can also check if Brussels airport gives you significantly cheaper flights. It’s like a €30 euro pp train ticket each way and adds 3 hours to your trip though, so it’d have to be a large savings or much better itinerary to make it worthwhile, but definitely worth a look. You can also mess around with hidden city ticketing that sometimes works, like I got a ticket to Japan this summer that was like €800 cheaper if going Luxembourg-Zurich-Tokyo as compared to the Zurich-Tokyo direct, and then on the return I just get off in Zürich. Just be aware that hidden city ticketing is a pain in the rear end to figure out and you can only skip the very last leg of the flight, so it might not be as useful for non-Europeans where travelling between airports is a much bigger hassle.
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Ticket prices for transatlantic flights (at least the ones I looked at) went up about 40-60% for flights starting on May 12. To be clear, I mean back in February you could see flights on May 11 for $800 and the same flight on May 12 cost $1200. I could track that behavior for weeks and the shift point was always May 12.
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Weird, I wonder what happened in the middle of May. Prices are so high, I guess I'll pass on a European Spring-Summer vacation.
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Pushing my trip back a month or two, so If I plan to fly to SEA in late October, November, or December, I'm assuming it would be wise to wait on buying a ticket since the prices are high?
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goodness posted:Pushing my trip back a month or two, so If I plan to fly to SEA in late October, November, or December, I'm assuming it would be wise to wait on buying a ticket since the prices are high? That's probably a fair bet. Cruise season in Seattle is starting up so stuff is going to be nuts. Traditionally fares tend to drop after Labor Day but that is becoming less and less true as airlines continue to mature in using data for dynamic pricing to maximize their yields. I'd put a watch on it and if it drops to a point you're comfortable paying, go for it.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:I noticed the same thing last month with different US -> European cities, but it wasn’t four months, more like 90 days before the flights. Is that true for inter-European flights too? I'm about to buy some flights for Zagreb > Gotheborg and Stockholm > Zagreb for a trip in mid-August. We're looking at LCCs, like Ryanair and Wizzair.
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Doctor Malaver posted:Is that true for inter-European flights too? I'm about to buy some flights for Zagreb > Gotheborg and Stockholm > Zagreb for a trip in mid-August. Not generally, no. The European market behaves very differently in most cases because there are options to move around the continent that don't involve airplanes which is not, sadly, something the US has.
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What flight search engine provides the best price alerts? I'm interested in maximum flexibility for the best deal possible. Date, day of the week, and trip length don't really matter (well, anything between 3 days and maybe 2 weeks). Is there anything that will tell me "holy poo poo there's a flight on these days four months out that's 30% less than the normal price" without needing me to pick dates?
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