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Best airfare for Greenville, SC - Prague - Rome/Sardinia - Greenville

Posted by (Six Mile) on

I'm starting my airfare research for a trip between Sept. 17 - Oct. 8 to Prague. I want to add on a trip to friends in Sardinia and so I'm considering whether to book open-jaw (Greenville, SC - Prague - Sardinia - Greenville), or take several days while in Prague to fly to Sardinia. Since the connecting flight to Sardinia is Rome, I suppose I could book Greenville - Prague - Rome, and then buy separately a ticket on a regional airline from Rome to Sardinia.

All the prices I've seen just from Greenville - Prague through consolidators are $1,100 or higher. Is it even possible to get a lower fare these days? And would the open-jaw return be that much more expensive?

Thanks.

Posted by
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First, I think $1100 is cheap and you should grab it. Second, open jaw tickets are general the same or cheaper depending on airports used over a RT and totally cheaper when you add in the return expense to get to the RT airport. Also, price a three leg trip - sometimes the connecting flight could be very inexpensive.

Good luck.

Posted by
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Thanks, Frank. I've looked up three-legged routing but don't understand how it's different from open-jaw. Can you clarify this for me?

Posted by
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Carolina:

Your travel to Sardina thru Prague is difficult--and expensive @ $2.3K on one ticket open jaw.

Your best bet may be to look to fly either out of ATL or Charlotte to Europe to Prague. Then, fly on one of the budget air carriers into Milan-Linate, Rome-Fiumicino, London-Stansted, Milan-Malpensa--and on to Cagliari Elmas Airport.

The biggest problem is that few air carriers fly into Sardinia all year long. And flying back through Milan-Malpensa is the only way to get back to the U.S. without 2 stops or more.

This may be one itinerary to get a travel agent into.

Posted by
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Three legs is three flights. A to B and C to A is open jaw. No flight connection between B and C. A three legged flight is A to B, B to C, and C to A. I have done as many a five legs and it was very reasonable as opposed to picking local, independent flights BUT - it locks you into a fixed schedule.

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