Please sign in to post.

Question for Travel Agents or Travel Guides

My wife and I are traveling to Austria and Germany this summer and we have some rather weird needs for planes and trains. Here's the background, followed by the question. First, we are flying in and out or Europe together via London on Virgin Atlantic. Once we get to London, she is going to Turkey for 10 days with some friends while I am going to Amsterdam and then Germany. We are going to meet up in Austria (Melk) where we will travel together and then return to London for our journey home.

Here is the question. If we book all the flights ourselves online, my wife will need to fly back to London from Turkey and then to Vienna in order to only buy two plane tickets instead of three. If a travel agent does the booking, hopefully they could book the flights that would have her go from London to Turkey to Vienna back to London without a bunch of wasted "ghost returns". Is it possible for a travel agent to do that? If so, is it possible that it would be cheaper than just buying two separate round trip tickets for her and having her travel back to London in between?

Similarly, I'll have to buy a ticket to Amsterdam and a second one from Vienna to London. Can a travel agent book it so I just buy one ticket and have it be cheaper?

Posted by
474 posts

If I am reading this right, you need to try a multi-city search. Not knowing your dates, I tried one in June on kayak.com with the three flights and came up with tickets for about $550 on Lufthansa or on Alitalia. You could try the same on your trip.

Posted by
16053 posts

Leslie's right. Use the multi-city selection and just put in the legs you need: London to Istanbul, Istanbul to Vienna, Vienna to London. Don't waste time on round trips.

for you, take the train to Amsterdam, and a one-way flight from Vienna to London.

There are plenty of flight search engines that include the discount carriers:

skyscanner.net,
dohop.com,
kayak.com
flylc.com

Some will give you fares, others will tell you which discount airlines fly those routes.Then go directly to the airlines website to see what the fares would be for each leg.