Hi All,
Our trip is not till next August to Venice & Ortisei. I'd like to start looking for airfare and will buy when the i see the price is right for me.
We usually fly with Icelandair, but for this trip to I'd like to fly to Venice (one stop).
My thought is Delta and United Airlines.
For those of you who have experience flying from Seattle to Venice, do you have a preference where the layover is?
I did a little bit of browsing, United has layover in Vancouver/WA DC/EWR
Thanks.
Why not just fly out of Vancouver? You can either take the train or drive up.
Driving to Vancouver will not be an option.
Is the train take 4 hours? And we'll have to take taxi from amtrak station to the airport.
I think i prefer just fly from Seatac
My preference is to layover in Europe rather than stateside, as the chances are much higher there would be another onward flight the same day if I missed the connection. Some east coast hubs have multiple flights a day but probably not to Venice.
Compared to my home airport (Portland), Seattle has a plethora of one stop options for Venice that have a layover in Europe, for example: British Air (LHR), Lufthansa (FRA), Swiss (ZUR), Delta/KLM (AMS), Air France (CDG), Turkish (IST). I'd research which of those airlines actually does have more than one flight to Venice from the layover airport and probably go with one of those. Also check timeliness of flights, for example the Seattle-Istanbul Turkish Air flight is notoriously late. Also I'd avoid CDG as I just don't like it, but if the price was right don't let that deter you.
Iceland Air has one stop Seattle-Venice flights, 3 times a week ( Mon/Thu/Sat)
Thanks CL.
I'll look into those airlines.
Joe,
I didn't know Iceland has flight to Venice. Good to know. I looked into it last year, didn't see any. Must be seasonal?
If you want to fly United to Venice, the only options are via Washington Dulles (IAD) or Newark (EWR). Those are the only two airports with direct UA flights from the US to Venice.
There are currently no non stop flights from Vancouver (BC) to Venice (with any airlines), AFAIK.
As mentioned above, there are several options to fly from Seattle (SEA) to Venice (VCE) with one stop only in Europe, including with Lufthansa (via Frankfurt or Munich), a United partner.
I flew Spokane to Milan via Seattle and CDG. I changed in Paris and allowed myself 3 hours there. That was. a gracious plenty but sometimes the algorithm will try and have you transit in 1.5 to 2 hours which is not enough time for me. Check to see how many Air France flights there are per day from Paris to Venice and then work backward to your Seattle/CDG flight on Delta.
Not sure about prices today, but a couple weeks ago I bought tickets from Seattle to London that were amazingly cheap. I bought tickets for the first of May and the tickets were under $700 a piece round trip. Barebones sky miles were $37k round trip a piece. I grabbed two and didn't look back! Good luck!
Our favourite option for Europe (we too are flying from the PNW) is KLM through Amsterdam Schiphol. KLM has a lot of options for flights within Europe. We flew to Venice with them last year. They have 2 flights per day Seattle to Ams. I prefer to fly a European airline when transiting there. I know there are codeshare options too.
Thank you, All.
My preference is transfer in Europe
Alaska is starting flights to Rome in the spring. Onward journey would be booked separately, self-transfer, probably $100 or less.
If you get to the East Coast, you can transfer at for instance JFK or EWR or IAD. Or probably even ATL on Delta. Lots of choices.
Or at Heathrow you'll have a dozen airlines to choose from.
I also prefer connecting in Europe when flying anywhere to western Europe out of SeaTac. Itinerary on my first trip SEA-VCE way back in 2008 for the RSE VFR tour was SEA-FRA-VCE inbound / outbound FCO-FRA-SEA on Lufthansa. For your SEA-VCE round trip, at a quick glance Google Flights and Kayak show Lufthansa/Condor/United flights with either FRA or MUC connections; American/British Air with LHR connections and Air France/Delta with CDG connections. Note, for ease of getting to VCE on your return, you'll want to opt for departures later in the a.m. (other than the 0600 Air France or Delta or United flights). Happy travel planning!
We fly out of Seattle (SEA) and although we haven’t flown to Venice (VCE), we have made lots of connections within Europe. Our first choice for connecting flights is Amsterdam (AMS). We’ve flown Delta into or through AMS 4 times in the last 2 years with zero issues. Codesharing with KLM we connected to Madrid and Berlin with easy 2-3 hour layovers.
Alaska’s SEA to Rome (FCO) flights start next May but they won’t have the flights available for sale until later this fall. At first glance, it doesn’t look as if they have a codeshare partner that flies nonstop FCO to VCE. So that could be an issue, but still might be worth checking out.
Fly SeaTac to Amsterdam to Venice. I’ve done that route a few tines with Delta/KLM.
I'm going in October 2025 from Portland, OR and I'm flying Delta. The Delta Comfort was not much more than the economy Delta. I fly PDX to JFK, then JFK to VCE. I have a 3 hour 30 minute layover at JFK, but it will be morning, so I can get a bite to eat and then get to my gate. I have found that it's more comfortable to break up the flight on the East Coast of the US. It is an overnight flight from JFK to Venice, so hopefully I can get some sleep. Delta has always been a good choice for us.
I will also be flying home from Milan (MXP), as I did a Multi-City flight, which is easy to do on Delta.
