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Hi Jenn,
I'm coming from Canada as well. I assume you're looking for info on where to fly to from Canada? There's loads of info about actually getting to SJPP on the forum. It's about the same distance from the three major cities that are somewhat near it, Madrid, Barcelona and Paris. It's good...
The budget airline RyanAir has flights from Santiago to Madrid for about 35 euros (plus baggage fee ~25 euro) if your backpack is too big for their tiny carry on restrictions).
Or, fly into a major hub like London, Dublin, Amsterdam or Frankfurt, and then exploit the cheap European airlines. And when people say cheap, they mean cheap. We're talking like <50 euros (plus a baggage fee... usually). Look into where EasyJet and RyanAir go to and from. IE on EasyJet, you can...
Re: where to fly in and out of, it's not necessarily to your advantage to fly in and out of the same city. For my last camino, I flew round trip to Paris, which was fine for reaching the Camino via train, but not so fine for getting back to Paris (ended up flying RyanAir, from Porto). While...
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