Anonymous wrote:I'm looking at flights to London from the West Coast in June $1100pp. so yeah, high, and not getting any cheaper

That’s not cheap, but I wouldn’t call $1100 to London, high either.

Look at flights from NYC or Philly or Balt. Look at flying into a cheaper closer city then training to your destination.

I’m flying Asia but flying to LAX with miles. Layover a few hrs and then red eye direct ti Shanghai. Or I can fly direct to Japan and do a trip there and Hawaii because the flights are so good. It’s mixing and matching. It’s not skip hopping but matching the best flights and figuring out another way to leverage your budget that’s a good deal.

It does suck going E. It’s a better deal going W this summer.

No. There are no deals. Do you think there’s some $400 fare that everyone is just ignoring because they want to pay $2k a ticket?

CLT to DUB----$885
Mid-May
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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Do the previously mentioned three day layover in Lisbon. Win win.

We don’t have time or money for that. Most people don’t.

You are not most people.

I bought tickets to Germany on Icelandair for the last two weeks of August. $1100 each. Could have had cheaper on Scandinavian via Copenhagen but required a 18 hour layover on way back. That could work for some.

Prices after mid August really fell compared to June and July.

Most people want to, let’s say, visit Italy for two weeks. How on earth can they add another three days in Lisbon? It’s extra time and extra money (hotels, food, local travel). In short: it doesn’t end up being a real savings.

If you have an open mind it does. 10 days in Italy and 3 days in Portugal sounds great to me. It's more fun and economical to visit more places in a single trip.

Lisbon is fun for a couple who enjoys food and wine. It’s not exactly a destination for families with little kids.

That's on you. You can certainly have a fun few days in Lisbon with kids. At a certain point, some of you just want to spend excessive amounts on travel. People offer a bunch of ways to save thousands, and yall come up with lots of middling complaints. You then have the nerve to complain about how expensive it is, when it's just because you insist on choosing every hit of convenience over price.

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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Then don’t complain. Direct flights are always more. You want to save money? Layover and pack light.

But the layovers are usually impossible—like 50 mins in Lisbon. Nobody is going through customs and making the next flight. Nobody.

Do people actually fly Norse? What’s that like?

They ended their Dulles flights. Probably a prelude to going out of business next winter.

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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Do the previously mentioned three day layover in Lisbon. Win win.

We don’t have time or money for that. Most people don’t.

You are not most people.

I bought tickets to Germany on Icelandair for the last two weeks of August. $1100 each. Could have had cheaper on Scandinavian via Copenhagen but required a 18 hour layover on way back. That could work for some.

Prices after mid August really fell compared to June and July.

Most people want to, let’s say, visit Italy for two weeks. How on earth can they add another three days in Lisbon? It’s extra time and extra money (hotels, food, local travel). In short: it doesn’t end up being a real savings.

If you have an open mind it does. 10 days in Italy and 3 days in Portugal sounds great to me. It's more fun and economical to visit more places in a single trip.

Lisbon is fun for a couple who enjoys food and wine. It’s not exactly a destination for families with little kids.

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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Then don’t complain. Direct flights are always more. You want to save money? Layover and pack light.

But the layovers are usually impossible—like 50 mins in Lisbon. Nobody is going through customs and making the next flight. Nobody.

Do people actually fly Norse? What’s that like?

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Anonymous wrote:$1,800 to Italy. Oof. Probably canceling our trip. Sigh.

I gut $1100 to Italy (for May) on Aerlingus.

Right,so not peak summer, and with a connection.

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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Do the previously mentioned three day layover in Lisbon. Win win.

We don’t have time or money for that. Most people don’t.

You are not most people.

I bought tickets to Germany on Icelandair for the last two weeks of August. $1100 each. Could have had cheaper on Scandinavian via Copenhagen but required a 18 hour layover on way back. That could work for some.

Prices after mid August really fell compared to June and July.

Most people want to, let’s say, visit Italy for two weeks. How on earth can they add another three days in Lisbon? It’s extra time and extra money (hotels, food, local travel). In short: it doesn’t end up being a real savings.

If you have an open mind it does. 10 days in Italy and 3 days in Portugal sounds great to me. It's more fun and economical to visit more places in a single trip.

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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Do the previously mentioned three day layover in Lisbon. Win win.

We don’t have time or money for that. Most people don’t.

You are not most people.

I bought tickets to Germany on Icelandair for the last two weeks of August. $1100 each. Could have had cheaper on Scandinavian via Copenhagen but required a 18 hour layover on way back. That could work for some.

Prices after mid August really fell compared to June and July.

Because most schools around here start in August.

The last few summers I paid about $2300 (booking a bit late), so I think this year is no worse.

Anonymous wrote:$1,800 to Italy. Oof. Probably canceling our trip. Sigh.

I gut $1100 to Italy (for May) on Aerlingus.

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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Then don’t complain. Direct flights are always more. You want to save money? Layover and pack light.

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Anonymous wrote:To Paris in May at 2K round trip. Completely wild.

There are flights in May available for a third of that.

Nobody wants to fly Norse without luggage.

Most want to fly nonstop rather than deal with an impossible 50 minute connection in Lisbon.

Do the previously mentioned three day layover in Lisbon. Win win.

We don’t have time or money for that. Most people don’t.

You are not most people.

I bought tickets to Germany on Icelandair for the last two weeks of August. $1100 each. Could have had cheaper on Scandinavian via Copenhagen but required a 18 hour layover on way back. That could work for some.

Prices after mid August really fell compared to June and July.

Most people want to, let’s say, visit Italy for two weeks. How on earth can they add another three days in Lisbon? It’s extra time and extra money (hotels, food, local travel). In short: it doesn’t end up being a real savings.