nfmasek

Hi, trying to help someone find flights... but prices are CRAZY...or the flight has 3 stops and 4 airports... Does anyone know a way to do this without breaking the bank or one's patience? I thought of using Ryanair to go from Zurich to Dublin, but they don't fly any of the days around her day....tentatively July 5th. but thought Zurich to Dublin, Dublin to Boston. If i do a kayak type search i get Zurich to I think it's London, London to Newark, Newark to Laguardia on your own, and then Laguardia to Boston. That one is out, and it is rather expensive to boot. If you know of a way to do it with airline miles, that might work. Thanks.

Dukey1

what dates?

Dukey1

oops sorry,,now see the 5 July thing. Is this a one-way trip?

thursdaysd

Use skyscanner.net. Best bet is probably Icelandair. I'd add a stop over in Reykjavik....

joannyc

United has a Saver Rewards non-stop flight available on July 5 at 5:30pm for 30,000 points plus $52.96 on Swiss Airlines.

mokka4

Use the industry website:
itasoftware.com
enter your travel requirements (i.e. 'no airport change'/ # of stops tolerated, dates, etc) on the left and search!
If its one way, it WILL cost more...

nytraveler

Just how "crazy" are the good flights that you have found.

Prices are up this summer and your price may not rally be bad.

If you look at skyscanner there are flights with 1 brief stop in Iceland for about $700.

StCirq

Icelandic and Wow, while no-frills, are always really cheap and just fine (if you bring your own food), and you can do a stopover in Iceland for no extra cost.

Southam

www.itasoftware.com is more complete for trans-Atlantic flights. It's run by Google, for the airlines, and does not sell tickets. The shopper can use its information on schedules to go to the airlines themselves. I love Skyscanner for European budget flights but have found no use for it trans-Atlantic. www.cheapoair.com is the easiest (for me) to use although any follow-up service is chancy at best.

nfmasek

nytraveler----i think it was a kayak.com found flight, but it was zurich to london to newark, then you get to laguardia, and then boston.

mokka4 and southam------- will take a look at itasofware.com thanks.

thanks for the united mileage info....joannyc

and all the iclandic ones (a friend's son went that route, but something weird happened, and they won't go near it again.(can't remember the circumstances.)

thanks all of you

nytraveler

No what I found was 1 stop - in Iceland - for about 3 hours. the whole trip was around 11 or 12 hours. I looked specifically for July 5, the listings with 1 stop.

The flight is Icelandair F1569, leaving Zurich at 14:00 hours and arriving at Logan at 18:35. Cost is $741.02.


Suggest you or your friend go to Icelandair web site now to find and book this flight as there are only a couple of seats left per the web site.

nytraveler

As for any problems in Iceland - suggest you post that as a question here. I know a lot of people take flights like this due to the very low prices and have never heard any odd complaints.

Can't comment since we have not done this personally - but if there were a real issue I would think it would be all over this board.

It seems like this person has a lot of very specific needs that may be resulting in such very high fares.