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- Gathering info for a future trip
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Hi, Raz,
Welcome to the forum.
Not sure where you are coming from, but I always buy multi-city tickets. I leave from a small midwst airport in the US, fly through Chicago to Madrid and then on to an airport at or near my starting point (Almeria, Bilbao, San Sebastián have been recent ones). Then for my return flight I fly from Santiago to Madrid and onto my international flight home. If you want to visit Madrid, this won´t work or course, but I find that this approach saves a lot of travel time and my ticket is usually not much more than a round trip in and out of Madrid would be. And it means I don´t have to worry about missing connections. If you have separate tickets and your flight into Madrid is late, and you miss your flight home, the airline will make you buy another ticket. And those last minute tickets can be very pricey!
Buen camino, Laurie
www.skyscanner.net works great for me every time .I flew Santiago to Madrid on Iberia and had no problems, the main challenge is getting the information about who flies, when they fly and how much. For some reason the major search engines re travel do not seem to handle Santiago very well. Keep trying, loads of flights to Madrid, just dig.
Buon Caminho
Yes. There is one right on the floor in front of all the checkin counters!Thanks all for your responses! Rynair has a late evening flight to Madrid in early November on a Friday - we think we would prefer the evening flight(even though it's late) over the very early morning flight - as we can check into a pre-booked hotel on arrival and sleep in if we wish, before touring around for the day.
Our flight home to Toronto is the following morning. I was just worried about all the negative reviews online as the airline seems to have a reputation for a lot of delayed or cancelled flights.
Re the luggage, it appears you have to pay to take your backpack as a carryon, but you can check your carryon for free. The point about the walking poles is a good one, so it would make sense to check the backpack with the poles (we were thinking of keeping the pack with us so we could make a quick exit from the airport!).
Does anyone know if there is a "wrapping station" at the Santiago airport for the pack & poles? I don't think my poles will fit in my backpack.
Thanks again!
We flew Iberia Express both ways (Madrid/Santiago) and couldn't have been happier. They were low cost without the nickel and dimeing Ryanair does.I am contemplating booking a budget flight back to Madrid after walking Camino Francis.
I see information about taking trains and buses, but nothing about flights, which seem to be very affordable and efficient time-wise.
However, after reading some reviews of one of the budget airlines, I have some reservations about booking re cancellations, customer service etc.
Has anyone had experience with flying out of Santiago to Madrid on one of these budget airlines?
(not sure if I should say the name but currently their pilots are on strike in some parts of Europe).
Thanks!
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