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Jadore Jan 15th, 2014 08:28 AM

Buying Tickets to Greece and Spain for June when to buy ???
 
Going on a multi destination trip with my daughter in June or end of May. Tickets look really high like 2000. up .... should I wait or will it get worse?

suec1 Jan 15th, 2014 08:38 AM

Ouch! we are going early May - into IST and out ATH - I booked right before Christmas. I noticed that some options were pricing up from what I had seen in Nov. so I booked. We need connecting flights in and out - and it seemed the best options were disappearing, connections of like 8 hours were the cheap choices but we were looking at weekend flights. We paid around $1300. I think capacity has been lowered and prices raised - boo hoo!

Jadore Jan 15th, 2014 08:42 AM

Yikes makes me afraid to wait but the summer sales have not come out yet. I plan to go into Athens, into Malaga and out of Barcelona. Maybe 2,000 is about right? Any more feedback Fodor Folks???

Christina Jan 15th, 2014 08:54 AM

It's because you are going to Greece, it farther away than W Europe, and mainly because it sounds like you are including 3 flights, not just 2, so of course that is going to cost a bundle. YOu can't even compare it to flights just to/from Europe when you are including a flight from Athens to Malaga in addition. $2000 doesn't seem bad to me for that itinerary when it is about $1300-1500 just for a RT to Europe.

If you were just going to Athens and out of BCN, it would be more like $1300, I bet, at least if you didn't fly the most expensive days of the week.

It depends where you are flyign from, also, if it isn't a major international East coast airport in the US, that could be why, also. Because I do see that I could get that itinerary in mid-June (all 3 flights) for only about $1500 total from Washington DC (decent flights) on Air Canada/Lufthansa. I checked cheap days, though, mid-week for all.

Jadore Jan 15th, 2014 09:03 AM

Thanks out of atlanta and yes, I will look at just Barcelona. I was doing mid week days. So it will only climb up? :) I could take Iberia down to Malaga maybe. Thanks for the help.


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