Chicago to Athens?
Mar 23rd, 2010, 08:31 AM
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Chicago to Athens?
My daughter and friends are looking to fly Chicago to Athens May 26th - June 6th. They must arrive in Athens before 5 pm. They are not having any luck with decent fares for those days and times. Any hints? (Have tried kayak, etc. ) Thanks!
Mar 23rd, 2010, 08:45 AM
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Prayer--just kidding. I had to hold off on visiting Greece this year because the airfare just would not budge beneath 1000, and neither would my dates (also was looking at late May). A sale might pop up, but have they tried getting a cheap flight to another major city and finding a low cost carrier to get them to Athens? For example, easyjet just had a sale (now ended) out of London.
Mar 23rd, 2010, 08:46 AM
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I went to a travel expo over the weekend where Arthur Frommer was a speaker giving budget travel tips.
He was recommending two newer airfare search engines which I had not heard of www.momondo.com and www.dohop.com.
They could also consider flying to a Europe hub and grabbing a budget airline to Athens from there. (The budget airlines do not, however, necessarily leave from the main hub airport but some secondary re-purposed airports so watch that.) You can find those on www.whichbudget.com.
Another budget travel tip I once heard is to contact travel agencies in big cities (like Chicago) who specialize in travel to a certain "home" country for immigrants. Here's one for Greece in Chicago I got by googling http://chicago.agrino.org/travel_agents.htm
He was recommending two newer airfare search engines which I had not heard of www.momondo.com and www.dohop.com.
They could also consider flying to a Europe hub and grabbing a budget airline to Athens from there. (The budget airlines do not, however, necessarily leave from the main hub airport but some secondary re-purposed airports so watch that.) You can find those on www.whichbudget.com.
Another budget travel tip I once heard is to contact travel agencies in big cities (like Chicago) who specialize in travel to a certain "home" country for immigrants. Here's one for Greece in Chicago I got by googling http://chicago.agrino.org/travel_agents.htm
Mar 23rd, 2010, 09:12 AM
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RBN, you do not say what your def. of "Decent" is.... I agree that $1400 is about the best on the usual search sites. Flights with good arrival times this year have not dipped that much. I have a nonstop out of Philly just under $1000 for mid-May, and prices for that flight have NOT gone down at all. That Chicago link laurie gave you looks good -- there are several agencies listed that specialize in students. ALSO these girls have a MUST arrival time, but can they be a bit flexible on the departure? Or -- if they could save $200 each by going a day earlier, would they do that? We could help them find a cheapie room.
