Fare question - Paris this winter
 

Forgive me if this is a question that's a pain in the butt but you all are very flight fare savvy!

I want to fly from SFO to Philly for Christmas (see the in-laws), fly from PHL to Paris for several days over New Year's and then back to SF.

I found a fare on Orbitz for $809 (of course almost $300 in taxes and fees on top of that). These are not direct flights - SF to Vegas, Vegas to Philly and then Philly to Paris through Toronto. This is the lowest I've seen so far and the layovers don't seem horrible. Should I wait it out or jump on this? Sorry for the length and thanks in advance!

Dana

Jump on This!!!

Try to see if separating the flights will be cheaper. In other words, look for a one way to PHL (US Airways) and then look for a flight from PHL to Paris and back to SFO.

Correction to my previous post: Southwest might have the cheapest flights to PHL. I got one for $119.30 including taxes.

Have you looked at two separate tickets: a one-way cheapie SFO-PHL and an open jaw PHL-CDG-SFO?

I am going to check out the one-way and open jaw options now. Thanks for the tips, hopefully something good comes up!

Don't know if it's still on their website, but Air France WAS showing some fall/winter specials. I hit one for my SFO/CDG, direct flight on Nov second. Round trip, all taxes etc. was 763.00. The cheapest I had seen a couple months before that was a bit over 800.00 and then it went to almost 1,400.00 for a couple of weeks!!!! So you might chech their website and also I signed up for e-mails..fare sale notices.

It just goes to show how much airfare went up this year....last year I flew from St. Louis to Paris for under $350 per ticket!

Tracy

Hi S,

www.kayak.com has RT SFO/PHL for 244 and RT PHL/CDG for 710. Total $954 including taxes.

You might have to see the in-laws again on the way back, however.

SFO/PHL/CDG/SFO is about $1060.

((I))

The holiday period from the weekend prior to Christmas weekend until a bit after New Year's is not likely to be representative of a typical "winter fare". I've sometimes found good deals when a person is willing to fly ON a holiday, such as Christmas. But I fear that the days of sub-$400 fares like Tracy got last year from St. Louis may be a thing of the past.

I did find a one-way to Philly for $215 and then an open jaw PHL-CDG-SFO for $696 all including taxes. And the times were good too...as soon as my husband gets the go-ahead from work, we'll book something like this. Thanks all!