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Super Delegate posted:I'm trying to book a Eurotrip. On ITA Matrix, you can go JFK-KEF, then KEF to PRG, then FCO to KEF and finally KEF to JFK for just over $2000 (there's a couple stopovers in Copenhagen). You would have to buy your BUD to FCO ticket separately, but it's not a bad price if you don't mind doing the one extra leg in Iceland and having basically an extra day there.
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Mister Adequate posted:Hang on, so if you're flying out of Dublin or Shannon to the US, you can go through US immigration before even taking off? That seems immensely more sensible than the usual system for any number of reasons. Do you know if any airports on Great Britain do that? I'm looking to fly out to Bozeman in a couple of months and between my regular anxiety issues and the added massive stress of a day-long intercontinental coach travel (when you're over 6 feet tall no less) I tend to get worked up going through immigration, which has led to a couple of highly unenjoyable extra scrutiny episodes.
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Arriving late in the day on an international flight is the best thing, you get to go right to sleep and have basically no jet lag.
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Mackieman posted:See, that was my plan when I went to PVG a couple of weeks ago. I stayed awake for the last eight hours of the flight, had dinner, and crashed out with a full eight hours of sleep. The next afternoon was miserable as I couldn't hardly keep my eyes open.
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Nov 19, 2013 17:52
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Yeah, my husband and I flew business class from Australia to Japan to Canada in 2011 thanks to points, the whole thing cost me like $300 for two people or something equally ridiculous. Stupid Aeroplan charge fuel surcharges on most of their partner airlines which makes it way harder to redeem them, but oh well.
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If you're not able/willing to do what Mackieman suggests, which I also think is the best move, I would book it like this: Girlfriend: TXL to SFO in Feb, SFO to TXL in April Boyfriend: SFO to TXL in April (on the same flight as you), TXL to SFO in May/June/Whenever That way your boyfriend will miss the return flight but it doesn't matter because he'll be in Berlin, and you've both ignored the stuff Mackieman has said about the problems you might face at immigration without a return ticket but this way you will have a return ticket if Pickles isn't a European citizen/resident so he's more likely to be allowed into the country.
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I hope that's a transpac business class flight at that price.
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Mackieman posted:It is business class, at least. My parents are taking my sister to Europe as a graduation present when she gets her master's degree next year; I get to tag along because I play family travel agent. This trip is in March during her spring break which is also my wife's spring break (she works in education). We were scheduled to leave March 6 and fly IAH-IAD-LHR, spending time in LHR then over to VIE, BTS, SZG, EDI, and then an overnight in DUB to avoid the UK APD. Hahahaa that is one hell of an itinerary, but it definitely does explain the price, for sure!
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Depending on how flexible you want to be, my guess is if you fly out on Christmas Day itself you will get either a cheaper price or an empty plane, or maybe even both, because no one wants to fly on Christmas.
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Jan 7, 2014 16:36
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poo poo, that is expensive. When I went business from Australia to Japan to Canada for two people it was like $300 in fees.
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Feb 27, 2014 05:20
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Yeah, YYZ to literally anywhere outside the airport is a total and complete nightmare.
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May 13, 2014 22:18
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grinning cheshire posted:Travel for August 2015, too far out? You generally have to wait 335 days for most airlines (365 for some), you're a bit too far out. HNL -> EWR/JFK/anywhere else on the east coast -> AMS is really doable, I'd fly straight there.
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Kind Milkman posted:I booked a flight using some of the tips from here on 5/2/14 through Spirit. It was a trip for two from MSP to PDX on July 5th, and back on the 14th, with a rental car through Hertz. Paid through Paypal because my bank is awful about high dollar amount transactions. I have to cancel the trip because of some extenuating circumstances. Do I stand any chance at getting my money back? Any tips on getting the majority of it back? I'd rather get a refund than miles or other credits. Totally depends on the fare you booked, if you booked the cheapest possible flights then probably not. I don't know about Spirit airlines, they may not offer any refundable fare buckets anyway. This is why it's always a good idea to book your tickets with a credit card that has cancellation insurance, or to buy cancellation insurance separately.
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Ugh I have the most hosed up schedule this summer and I can't make ANYTHING work without costing like a billion dollars. Seriously, Premium Economy one way tickets being basically the same price as a return to Australia/NZ is killing me, since I want to return via Tokyo which seems to be impossible because ~*~AIRLINES~*~ It should absolutely be doable with ANZ in *A and Qantas in OW
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sellouts posted:Sorry, where are you starting your trip from? Oh, sorry, I'm not super really looking for help so I didn't mention it. I just figured this was the best place to rant about plane ticket prices and their magic. My trip isn't completely set in stone yet and is dependant on a lot of factors. I'm leaving from Vancouver, going to Melbourne Australia in Premium Economy, probably August 3rd or 4th. Then at some point in late September I'm going to be going back to Canada, but I'm going via either Tokyo or Osaka (preferably Osaka) and stopping there for a week or so. Also one of the legs, probably Japan -> YVR, I'm going to do on points. It's just a giant clusterfuck to figure out, namely because the one way tickets in PE are almost the same price as a round trip, so it's become stupidly expensive to do, and I can't get Qantas to actually route me through Tokyo on the way back, even with a multi city booking. HookShot fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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sellouts posted:Weird, I can get them to the point where they want to take my cash on Qantas.com.au for those flights no problem. I don't see what's hard to figure out aside from your schedule and when you want to travel. You're going to pay through the nose for this because it's really 2 one ways -- returning via Tokyo/Osaka isnt the most direct path to your origin, there's no routed flights that go via NRT and you're stopping over for a week. Not a ton of magic there, there's just no free lunch for trying to choose your way to a city and choosing to layover for a week rather than connect in a traditional round trip manner. Oh yeah, definitely, I know all that (I think the Qantas site had a glitch the other night, I can now get the multi city flight tool to work, whereas when I had my original rant it wouldn't do it), that's why I said I'm not really looking for help, just ranting. I'm going Business with the points for sure, Air Canada don't even have a way to do PE with them, but yeah you're right. I only book business class with point for exactly that reason.
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Yeah, definitely make the jump on that one. I waited a bit on those flights to Australia in PE and found an Air NZ sale... one way to Auckland for $1700, the flight onwards to Australia will end up being around $300 more. Pretty stoked on that price, since it's not much more than half a return ticket, which is awesome.
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E-Money posted:I'm in London for work until the end of August. I want to take a trip somewhere in Europe, but am flexible on location as long as it's a cheap flight. I will need to leave on a Friday afternoon/evening and return on a Sunday but have some flexibility as to which weekend, and would go pretty much anywhere cheap and fun. I tried using Kayak Explore but that doesn't let you put in any date/day restrictions. I would love to just put in my specs and scroll a map with fares and pick a great deal, rather than doing a million searches for a bunch of random cities. Is there anything like that? I would use ITA Matrix, stick in a city as close to the centre of Europe as you can (Vienna maybe? Prague?) and then search all airports in a 500km radius or whatever. You'll probably end up with the odd flight to Africa in there, but whatever.
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Jul 28, 2014 16:51
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My favourite was when Expedia booked me a return ticket from SYD -> QZN with luggage on the way there and no luggage on the way back, despite the website saying I was booked with luggage both ways, and then not replying at all to my email to complain about it. I was out $260 at the airport thanks to that.
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peanut posted:I might fly San Francisco, CA to San Jose, Costa Rica next year. Any tips on layovers in Phoenix/Dallas/Houston/Mexico/El Salvador? If I have more than 4 daytime hours I'll probably take my 4-year-old out into the city, but where can I leave my bags? Four hours isn't enough to go with a child into a city, do anything, and get back in time for your international connection. Unless one of those cities happens to have the airport be right downtown, which I have never, ever experienced. Unless you have 6+ hours just hang out in the airport like everyone else, buy a lounge pass if you don't want to hang out with the unwashed masses. You'll feel like an idiot if you go out, spend an hour in a restaurant, get into a traffic jam and miss your connecting flight.
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I'm pretty sure you can go SYD -> DFW, I'm assuming you can get from Dallas to Central America pretty easily.
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Mackieman posted:You can, but at what price? SYD-DFW is a flagship route that has a single service on it, so the prices are typically higher than to LAX or SFO, and you can get to LatAm pretty easily through LAX as well. Yeah, I wasn't factoring in price, just that it's actually fairly easy to get from Australia to central America, just throwing out the two-flight routes that are out there.
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sentientcarbon posted:Question about rescheduling/one-way ticket general fuckery: No, if you miss the first leg of the roundtrip the whole ticket is considered forfeit, sorry. If one way is only $100 maybe check if you can re-book the whole itinerary for cheaper than $360?
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Rime posted:When I go to an airline site such as Condor and they claim there are only 4-7 seats left, on a flight two months down the road for a random rear end line like Vancouver to Belgrade, are they lying or are those numbers accurate? A lot of flights book out early, especially if you're travelling in summer.
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Rime posted:Better get my poo poo sorted and commit to an itinerary ASAP then. I'd at least try just the Vancouver -> Frankfurt and see if it tells you there's only a few seats left then. That way if so you can just wait and book Vancouver -> Zagreb or whatever later on and train it down to Serbia from there. But yeah, I'd try and commit sooner rather than later just so you can start pricing out flights if nothing else.
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smackfu posted:Yeah, the only place I take it seriously is when it is a small plane like a Dash-8. That's why I like the seating maps. Last year I got two of the last four seats period on a flight from YVR -> AKL that I booked about six weeks in advance. I was like "holy poo poo, already?" and had zero leeway for what date to travel on, so it worked out well.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:My situation is a slightly unusual one: If you're willing to do a few layovers you can go ATL -> FRA for $702 on a combo of Air Canada and Iceland Air. Involves stopping in Toronto and Reykjavik. May 27th only. I'd jump on it, everything else is $900+
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Yeah, you're gambling by just having the one way. If you're white it [i]probably/i] won't be a problem but no guarantees. If you want earlier, Hipmunk has SAV -> Charlotte -> CDG -> TXL for $824 on May 2nd or 3rd (can't remember which it was). Also mystery airline. CDG with those connections looks like the transat part will likely (but not necessary) be with an American airline of some sort.
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simplefish posted:The only thing I know about Lübeck is that when I flew in there several years ago, it was RyanAir and seemingly nobody else's airport And it was probably RyanAir's Berlin airport.
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Hollandia posted:Brisbane to Stockholm, departing anywhere between 20-25 June, returning 3-7 August. If you don't mind booking a couple separate one ways on a discount airline, you can go BNE -> HEL and then HEL -> BNE for $1585 AUD with Finnair. Leave June 24, return Aug 4-6.
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Souvlaki ss posted:I'm looking at prices for a round trip, and while I have a set date for the departure flight, I'm not so sure about the return flight (depending on work it might be a month after the departure flight or 6 months). If you're looking on an American airline (any of the major ones anyway), your change fee is usually going to be $200 if it's a domestic flight. If it's international, the fee is going to be higher. You don't have nearly enough details to have an idea about what's the best thing to do in your situation though. HookShot fucked around with this message at 00:46 on May 7, 2015 |
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Souvlaki ss posted:International between SCL-ORD or SCL-GRR (once again). Yeah, you can only book out 330 (or 333? I can't remember) days in advance generally. I mean, your other option is to book two one-way flights, which depending on the costs might come out to being cheaper, but yeah, I think your best bet is to just book a ticket and pay the change fee and fare difference.
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Souvlaki ss posted:I'll check the 2 one-way flights option. Thanks for the suggestion! Just doing a cursory search flex tickets in economy seem to run around $6k for that route, so I would definitely avoid that. If you're going to book and pay the change fee, just get the cheapest possible ticket for sure. Before you confirm the booking, somewhere in the terms it should have the change fee listed.
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thehoodie posted:My girlfriend and I are travelling to Europe in a couple weeks. We managed to score a $350 flight to Dublin on June 15th, but no such luck on the way back - all the return flights are upwards of $1000 no matter where I look. We'll be flying back at the end of July, so anywhere after the 25th. Intra-Europe flights seem to be pretty cheap, so we're willing to hop around if it will shave off some money. Yeah, rule #1 of international travel, don't book one ways. $562 on Westjet via Hipmunk July 26th. Thank your lucky stars that Westjet started going to Ireland because otherwise there was no way you were doing it for under $1k/ticket.
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Also you get the bonus of making everyone in your life freak out about how you're going to die if you spend 5 hours in Seoul airport. Seriously, I went to Japan for a week about six months after the big earthquake and tsunami and basically every single person in my life except my mom who actually understands science was telling me and my husband "oh no don't go you'll die of radiation poisoning!!!" My answer was always "if we get screwed up by spending a week in Tokyo six months after the actual incident the world is going to have way bigger problems than me getting leukemia." Seriously though, MERS is confined to hospitals right now, you'll be fine.
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FISHMANPET posted:Saw this about Spirit last night: There's a whole bunch of them posted about ten posts up: fordan posted:When Spirit works it's cheap (if you can manage to avoid all the fees) and it gets you there.
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There are worse places to be stuck overnight than Reykjavik, especially if you're there in the middle of summer.
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PT6A posted:Are other Star Alliance carriers like Air Canada in that they won't actually offer business class tickets on long flights through the frequent flyer program? I always get offered economy on my 9 hour segment, and then (for example) business class on a two-hour connection within Europe, all for basically twice the points as booking economy on all segments. Uh, no thank you Air Canada, please go gently caress yourself. Yes, for the most part. Star Alliance flights are all offered to Star Alliance customers. Sometimes Air Canada will miss some, the ANA search engine is the best one and will give you all the available options for the entire *A network. OneWorld is a bit better for long haul business segments, but in general if you want to book business rewards long haul you either have to book enormously in advance or be super flexible with your dates.
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Australia is in fact a big country with multiple airports that will have a price difference, since it's AFL I assume you want Melbourne?
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