I will be flying from Florence to Dusseldolf and Cologne to Prague. Are there any booking sites that deal with cheaper flights? Or any ideas about flights?
Posted by
Green Bay
21357 posts
A lot of people use Skyscanner.com. Here is a hint: look at using Pisa airport (easy train ride from Florence and probabaly cheaper than a cab to Florence airport) going to Cologne. German Wings hub with a nonstop as low as $78. German Wings also has cheap nonstops to Prague. You can get anywhere between Cologne and Dusseldorf with regional trains and S-Bahn.
Posted by
New York, NY, USA
11294 posts
I agree that http://www.skyscanner.com is a good place to look for flights within Europe, as it shows both budget and "legacy" carriers. The budget carriers are priced for one way flights, but the legacy carriers can be very expensive for one way flights. So, you can buy a round trip ticket and throw away the second part; don't throw away the first part, or the airline will void the rest of the ticket. Budget airline prices only go up the closer you get to the flight, so book as soon as you know your dates. Flying from Florence, also look at Pisa and Bologna airports. Flying to or from Cologne or Dusseldorf, look at both airports. As Sam said, these are close enough that a really cheap flight would sway you to use one airport or the other.
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Captain Cook, Hawaii, USA
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Posted by
Huntsville, AL, USA
8371 posts
The only direct flight from Florence to Dusseldorf is Air Berlin. Lufthansa Regional flies to Dusseldorf out of Bologna Airport. There are no direct flights to Dusseldorf from Pisa. Cologne-Bonn Airport has direct flights to Prague on Germanwings, a no frills airline owned by Lufthansa.
You'd have to check the fares to see if they're acceptable.