Yesterday we bought one-way tickets to fly into Venice on Nov 18 of this year and the price was pretty reasonable, today while looking at prices from Rome to Texas, we were astonished at the price difference, it will cost us $4,000+ (2 people).
My questions, for you travel experts, should we wait and see if prices go down next month? or should we go ahead and buy now?
This is our first time traveling overseas.
Thanks
One way flights are always more expensive than round trips on the traditional airlines like United American etc.
You may want try searching with Norwegian or Wow Airlines but I don't think they go to Texas
They have broken the mode of traditional airlines and sell one way flights cheaper.
Why are you buying a one way flight anyway, are you not planning to come back?
I would look into alternative departure or arrival points. Use google flights to enter your departure and destination and play around with city pairs. For example, flights from FCO to San Antonio are half of those to MFE.
Two one-way tickets are often much more expensive than a single multi-city ticket ( like a roundtrip but into and out of different cities in Europe).
What airline did you use to get the cheap one-way to Venice?
If that airline has the much higher price for the return from FCO, try the airlines that price all their flights as one-ways, such as Norwegian Air, Icelandair, Condor--and I am sure there are others.
You may not be able to get all the way back to MFE with these airlines, but you should be able to get close, then take the final leg on a different carrier.
@Lola Booked thru Kayak from McAllen to Venice $1,838 (two tickets)
Will look into the other Airlines mentioned
In the future, what you should do is price out a multi-city (open-jaw) flight. You would indicate McAllen to Venice and Rome to McAllen. When you fly traditional airlines, that is usually much cheaper than two one-way tickets.
Did you pay kayak, or did kayak transfer you to the airline website? If you paid the airline, it's worth a call to see how much it would cost to change the one-way ticket to a multi-city ticket into Venice and out of Rome by paying the change fee and (one hopes) taking advantage of the lower fares for multi-city routings.
Even better: If you bought the initial one-way tickets less than 24 hours ago, ask whether you can cancel them. I think there may be a 24-hour cooling-off period, but I'm not sure.
First, assuming your Venice tickets are non-refundable and have a huge change penalty.
See about a one way return from Rome (ROM) to either: London Heathrow (LHR) or New York Kennedy (JFK). Then price the one way from either LHR or JFK to MFE. By using two of the busiest international airports in the world, you can often find cheap flights from Rome's Fiomincio (FCO) to either JFK or LHR.
An example of a use that I'm looking at for next year, for Spain.
I'm first pricing and timing open jaws from JFK to Barcelona and some combination of Madrid, Seville, Lisbon to JFK. When I hammer that down, I just fit the JFK-ORD flight home in there.
Since you're living somewhere beyond a hub, you are probably having an additional layover beyond the megahub. Probably DFW, but maybe Houston. Yeah, doing a quick search on flight options, it seems it's always two connections, with the second one being DFW, which is a megahub for the US.
For future reference, the tip, as explained by others, is to price it all together, even if you're flying open jaw. I can get you from MFE to VCE via a non-idiotic route (MFE-DFW-LHR-VCE/FCO-LHR-DFW-MFE... the cheapest one was MFE-LAX-LGW-VCE (3 days with layovers) and coming back FCO-LAX-LAS-MFE with a 6 am departure in LAX... I wouldn't even suggest that to someone at work that I hated)... goes $1422 or $1423 depending on whether you book the same flights with AA or BA with a return on December 2nd. Saturdays are good for flying, definitely. But weekends are bad for buying. This could be down to $1250 on Tuesday. There's a similar version that works through Philadelphia, and I suspect there are better routes that don't involve as long layovers in Dallas.
Now, back to current problem... what return date are you looking for, and I will play my favorite game and see what's out there.
Oh wow, is good to know that weekends are bad for buying. Will wait for Tuesday and see, also will try more combinations thru New York, Houston, Dallas. Thanks for the tip!
So far we found flight from FCO to AUS (Austin) $780/ticket using Condor, then from AUS to MFE $274/ticket using AA. This seems more reasonable to us.
We are getting into Venice Nov 19th (departing 18th) and leaving Rome the 27th.
Our flight to Venice is thru AA/British Airways booked thru Kayak and paid $1838 (2 tickets)
We are getting into Venice Nov 19th (departing 18th) and leaving Rome the 27th.
Yeah, there's another problem. If Friday is the worst day to fly, I think Monday is the second worst. Given that there are seven days of the week, being sixth best is pretty bad.
Cheapest the Kayak pulled for me was $2276 (this without any travel kung fu), going FCO-MAD-DFW-MFE and 19.5 hours in total.
If I bump that to Tuesday (one of the best days to fly), I can get you back for $650/ with a brutal routing of FCO-Brussels-Miami-Mexico City - MFE. Wednesday produces a similar cuckoo routing of FCO to Lisbon, to Miami, Mexico City, MFE.
Kayak is a good place to start. But it shouldn't be the only place you look. Check out skyscanner.com, where I found you on Monday the 27th, FCO - YYZ (Toronto) to IAH (Houston) to MFE. Downside is a short overnight in Houston. but it's $840/person. With flights by Air Canada/United. Bumping to Tuesday, $454 per with an interesting setup of Norwegian Air nonstop from FCO to LAX, and then Allegiant from LAX to MFE direct, so long as you don't mind 19 hours in LA, from 7 PM to 2 PM the next day.
Hey thanks!
Check your flight details carefully. Most British Airways flights to Venice depart from Gatwick (LGW), so you have to use a bus to transfer there from Heathrow ( LHR) where your American Airlines flight will land.
@Lola. American Airlines only from MFE to DFW, then the rest of the trip with British Airwaves (DFW - LHR and LHR - VCE)
That's good. My august 26-27 BA flight from Chicago to Venice switches airports. You dodged one there. I have four hours to take my carryon luggage off the plane, clear customs and make the transfer. Not particularly worried.
Hi. Before you do anything else, look into acraven's suggestion to change your current one way on American / BA to a cover both ways. You can buy the whole multi trip mfe - venice, rome-mfe for around $1400 on American or BA. Based on your info, you probably could get about $600? (900- $300 change fee) credit toward that from the one way tix you already bought, making your net new cost about $800 per person, and then you would have a complete round trip ticket. Your other option of separate Condor + AA tix would cost more, plus is risky because if Condor flt is delayed, you might miss your AA flight. Good luck!
