cruiseluv

Earlier today I was looking up the Air Europa website to give some info to another poster and noticed that Air Europa has some great fares in July- August to Madrid.

I kept putting random dates for these months and was getting rates in the $400-$550. These flights are Continental flights that Air Europa codeshares. The same flights in the Continental website are quoted around$800-$900+ dollars!

WillTravel

This is true, and if you're lucky you can also get similar great fares from SEA, and probably other cities too (someone found such a fare leaving from DEN, for example). I don't know why the cost is the same as from EWR - my ticket for SEA-MAD was approximately $458 USD total.

julies

Did you find the site in English? All I can find is the Spanish site, which I could probably actually figure out, but I'd prefer English. The link on the upper right of the site where you select languages only offers Spanish.

WillTravel

Someone posted a link to the site in English, but it doesn't work for booking.

I found the fares from other than EWR on Orbitz.com and other sites - onetravel.com and travelcuts.ca .

igpjazz

I tried going to their website which is in Spanish but there is only one airport out of the US which is in New York? Am I doing it right? Please advise. Thanks.

cruiseluv

As far as I know Air Europa only flies into US via their codeshare with Continental into their hub in Newark, NJ, however, I'm not 100% sure.
I couldn't get the english site to load the departure cities , so I did it in the spanish site since I'm fluent. If anybody wants me to check dates or translate the site I'll be happy to. I found their fares excellent for the time of the year.

Willtravel,

Thanks for the tip about Orbitz. I've never used that site.

igpjazz

cruiseluv,
Can you please try and get the price
for me for 3 adults leaving chicago on july 21 and returning july 31. Thanks much.

WillTravel

igpjazz, you could do that as well as anyone, because the Air Europa site won't help you with Chicago departures (it only has EWR departures). I'd start with Orbitz, and try adjusting your dates. Also look at ITASoftware.com - although this does not necessarily pick up the best fares for this.

wren

I am putting in July 1 - 11th and the fares are not special. Am I doing something wrong?

WillTravel

Probably not. The very best fares are only available for a few certain dates. I got August 17-31.

rkkwan

I went to itasoftware.com, did a search for EWR-MAD non-stop and specified Air Europa only. Results for July:

$639 - 7/9, 7/17
$685 - 4 other days
$910 - 5 other days
$960 - 7/2
$1210 - 7/1
No fare available - 18 days

I picked 6-8 nights. Fares may be slightly difference if you use other search criteria.

Therefore, while CO flies this route daily, Air Europa may not sell, or may have sold out, some of the flights it has seats for.

rkkwan

BTW, CO's own fare are mostly $910/960. So Air Europa is significantly cheaper on 6 days in July, but on 7/1, CO is $50 cheaper, at $1,160.

WillTravel

rkkwan, my cheap fare didn't show up on ITASoftware.com - at least last time I checked. So while that's a useful guide, it's not 100% for sure.

cruiseluv

Wren,

7/1-7/11 the special fare is not available, it's much higher but 7/2-7/11 it's available at 410 Euros
Igpjazz, your dates didn't work

Maybe I was lucky earlier today when I was putting in random dates in July and August but they all seemed to work!

igpjazz

cruiseluv,

Thanks for checking.

wren

Yes, thank you for checking.