Edward Reardon
The Forgotten Man
- Time of past OR future Camino
- CF fall (2017)
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I agree with trecile - not that I am smart enough to do it! My experience with buying flights is the price rarely goes down once I start to search. It is useful to sign up for one of those tracking services, and I would also clear your browsing history each time you do a search yourself. Also, if you see a good price on a travel engine, check the airline itself - best to book directly with the airline if possible. Don't get too hung up on waiting for "the best deal," and once you find a "reasonable deal" for you, be happy because you are on your way to the Camino!First of all thank you to all the veterans who spend so much time answering questions for all us rookies.
My question involves flight tickets. Two weeks ago I browsed flight booking sights to get a general idea on costs but since I still had a few more things to finalize I didn't book.
Now today when I rechecked all the flights were over $300. more. The $300. question is should I book now or wait to see if the price comes down? Some sites offer a service where you can sign up and get notifications of price changes. My departure date is still way off, October 11, flying out of Boston. Thanks for your time.
Ed
First of all thank you to all the veterans who spend so much time answering questions for all us rookies.
My question involves flight tickets. Two weeks ago I browsed flight booking sights to get a general idea on costs but since I still had a few more things to finalize I didn't book.
Now today when I rechecked all the flights were over $300. more. The $300. question is should I book now or wait to see if the price comes down? Some sites offer a service where you can sign up and get notifications of price changes. My departure date is still way off, October 11, flying out of Boston. Thanks for your time.
Ed
Thanks, TaijiPilgrim,I agree with trecile - not that I am smart enough to do it! My experience with buying flights is the price rarely goes down once I start to search. It is useful to sign up for one of those tracking services, and I would also clear your browsing history each time you do a search yourself. Also, if you see a good price on a travel engine, check the airline itself - best to book directly with the airline if possible. Don't get too hung up on waiting for "the best deal," and once you find a "reasonable deal" for you, be happy because you are on your way to the Camino!
First of all thank you to all the veterans who spend so much time answering questions for all us rookies.
My question involves flight tickets. Two weeks ago I browsed flight booking sights to get a general idea on costs but since I still had a few more things to finalize I didn't book.
Now today when I rechecked all the flights were over $300. more. The $300. question is should I book now or wait to see if the price comes down? Some sites offer a service where you can sign up and get notifications of price changes. My departure date is still way off, October 11, flying out of Boston. Thanks for your time.
Ed
Thanks Rick,Norwegian Airlines, which offers cheap international flights, has recently gotten permission to fly some US/Ireland routes. I think the service starts this July from the Providence, RI airport. From Ireland you should be able to get cheap flights to Spain or France.
These recent webpages talk of a special $65 one-way fare.
http://www.godsavethepoints.com/new...ts-us-cities-to-ireland-scotland-on-norwegian
http://www.newser.com/story/238811/cheapest-ever-flights-get-you-to-europe-for-65.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...wegian-air-fly-spain-four-us-cities/89962580/
Edit: I just thought of another trick. Look for deals from farther-away airports. Once Peg and I got a good deal by flying from Boston to Detroit to Amsterdam.
Note that there is a difference between Norwegian Airlines and its subsidiary Norwegian Air International. It may help with searches. Norway is not in the EU; Ireland is. And I think Norwegian Air International is technically an Irish company. This way the business can play by the rules with which it can do best.Sitting through a raging blizzard now here in Maine so I have time to read up on the links you included.
Thanks TMcA,This is kind of a long shot, but you might consider flying out of Montreal...maybe take a bus to get there. I think you will find that the prices are at least $300 less than flying out of Boston.
Of course, it'll be a hassle to (probably) bus up to Montreal, but if you look at Montreal as the beginning of your adventure, the hassle becomes a tradeoff for another interesting experience.
Most of the trans-Atlantic carriers will show up on the major search engines, but also check out Air Transat. They are a budget carrier out of Montreal and Toronto and usually have very low fares. (But some of their flights to European destinations end sometime in October.)
Good luck and buen camino. PM me if you have more questions.
Tom
I use flights.google.com and have had excellent success finding cheap flights. (Vancouver to Bilbao for C$465 return was the best!)
BUT - You must always use the airline's website to book the flight, if you use the travel agent site offered to you, they have exorbitant change/cancellation fees.
From East coast of United States I found cheapest total travel expenditure was to fly NYC to London and then take Ryan Air to Biarritz (1.5 hour train/bus to SJPDP). Return is from Santiago de Compostela to London (Ryan Air again) to NYC. I got relatively low cost RT flight NYC to London on Indian Air but you just have to keep searching. I use ITA Matrix search engine and I also use "incognito" window to avoid the browsing history issue (which IS real). I found Rome2Rio to be a good website for researching the travel options in getting to SJPDP.
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