Sicily in September

Simplest route is to fly into Rome and there’ll be a number of flights to Palermo. If you’re flying on a single ticket Detroit to Palermo, if you miss your connecting flight in Rome, the airline will put you on the next available flight. There’s no magic as to when an airfare will at its lowest. When you see a fare that fits your budget, grab it because in a few hours it might disappear.

We are booked for the 12 day RS Sicily tour as well (our tour begins on 9/22). It is our 7th RS tour. We are flying from Philadelphia to Palermo via Rome, but we have not yet booked our flights. We plan to arrive in the afternoon of 9/21. We would welcome the opportunity to meet any of our fellow travelers ahead of the actual 'first meeting', so if you (or any others reading this) are on our tour and would like to meet ahead of time, perhaps for a gelato, please let us know and we can share details. Jean and Cort

There is an assumption that to go to Sicily you need to go to Rome, or at least that it will be the most convenient way, but that is not necessarily so, unless you wish also to visit Rome. Other European hubs also have flights to Sicily and may have more US nonstops than does Rome. For example, my trip there next week from Washington Dulles is with Swiss Airlines on a United codeshare to Zurich with connection to Palermo, return from Catania the same way all on Swiss.

The closer it gets to traveling, the more expensive the cost will become because there are only a certain number of what I’ll call reduced fare seats. If flying economy the difference may not be terribly different, but it will be if flying premium economy or business class.

We tend to book 3-6 months prior to the trip. When we flew to Sicily (in and out of Catania) we flew through Munich going over and Frankfurt on the return.