ajc

Next June I will be flying from Chicago to Naples for a wedding on the Amalfi coast. Then I am heading to Paris for a week and then home to Chicago. The fares right now for that are about $1800. That seems high to me. Is it better to wait and see if they come down? Also, should I instead book round trip to Paris and then take a smaller airline roundtrip to Naples? I SO APPRECIATE YOUR HELP!

nytraveler

have you looked at low cost flights between naples and paris?

Michael

Are you using your transcontinental airline for the Naples-Paris leg? If so it might be cheaper to use one of the European discount airlines such as EasyJet to go from Naples to Paris.

janisj

Open jaw into Naples (or even Rome) and home from Paris. Then take a budget airline or an overnight train from Italy to Paris.

nukesafe

I just looked up a dummy run for Chi to Milan and then back from CDG on Orbitz. Looks like flights are running around $1,200. A cheapo flight from Milan to Paris won't cost much if you book far enough ahead.

Aramis

Milan isnt Naples

Dukey1

look at these two sites for budget airline fares within Europe

www.whichbudget.com

www.skyscanner.com

Be very aware that some of the flights may not be non-stop

Southam

The fares being quoted now for travel next June look to be about $150-$200 above last June. Going in and out of Paris plus the lowest budget flight to Naples won't save anything plus may require you to juggle Paris airports depending on airline and flight time. Going Chicago-Naples on one ticket will require changing planes somewhere so you can balance the total length of the flights against the cost.
Nobody, including the airlines, can be sure what price levels will be in June, the start of high season, but gamblers might hope for short sales in late fall or early winter.

Dukey1

I have this funny suspicion that even if there ARE airline sales they are not going to cover the busiest travel dates.
Perhaps it might be easier if you fly from Chicago to ROME and make your way by rail from there to Naples.

You could then fly from Naples to Paris and home from there.

Since Easyjet flies between Naples and Paris you could, if you want, fly to Paris first and change but I suspect the cost might be equivalent if you fly into Rome and out of Paris to chicago.

nukesafe

Whoops, Aramis, you are so right Milan is not Naples. Inattention and Alzheimer's strike again. I re-did the search on Orbitz, this time for Naples in early June, and still got a fare on Turkish Airlines with one stop for $1141.20.

Christina

I wouldn't ever book an airfare this early for next June -- unless I could some amazing, unbelievable fare which you didn't.

Michael

<i>I re-did the search on Orbitz, this time for Naples in early June, and still got a fare on Turkish Airlines with one stop for $1141.20.</i>

If it's open jaw returning from Paris,it's a good price.

nukesafe

Yep, that was open jaw out of Chicago to Naples, and Paris to Chicago. Now, of course that is Turkish airlines -- don't know what sort of equipment they fly. Flying carpets?

Michael

I've used Pegasus Airlines and Onur Air and have found them to be no different than airlines flying in western Europe.

nukesafe

That's good to know, Michael. I was trying to be funny, but seems I missed.