I'm looking into airfare for this summer already- it would work out best to fly into one airport and out of another. does anyone have any reccomendations on going about this? It seems like it's going to be costly!

thank you!

It would help to know your destination(s) and your dates.

Sorry!! I'm looking for July of 02 with destinations of Denver and Albq.

I guess it would also be helpful to know where your trip is originating from.

One possibility is to find cities that have discount airlines that sell one-way tickets. I don't know the options with your origin/destination, but I there used to be a a place on a website--is it 1travel.com?--that provided a listing of discount airlines by city and nearby airports.

It works fine if the two cities are considered a pair and in/out from one or the other is considered RT, but Denver and Albq wouldn't qualify there.

Call an airline that services both Denver and Albequerque. I believe you can make these arrangements without paying an arm and a leg. We flew American to Vancouver for a cruise this summer. Our return flight originated in Anchorage. It was no more costly than a regular round-trip.

What you are talking about is an "open jaw" trip. It could be as little as approximately the cost of the sum of 1/2 the round trip fare for each leg, plus a little bit more. If you are having problems booking it, visit your friendly travel agent. Or find an airline that serves both cities and the origination point and call them.

I have flown "open jaw" tickets quite a bit and they aren't any more costly than the fare they should be (summing two halves of corresponding RT city fares, absolutely zero amount was added on to that); I've flown to Denver and ABQ specifically on major carriers and never noticed that, particularly on United. You can easily check these type of fares out now on sites such as Travelocity to see if RT is any cheaper, it's often not. It is of course true that because you are going to two cities that will never be priced identically, the fare has to be more expensive than the cheapest RT fare to one of those cities, but it shouldn't be more than the RT fare to the most expensive one.

thanks! I'm going to check into everyone's suggestions!!