Flying from Cinque Terre to Seattle

Two years ago, we flew home from Bologna, which was somewhat efficient, but we had a rental car that we turned in there, and didn’t have a super early or late flight.

In your case, is taking a train back to Rome the least inconvenient option? Then, at least you’d have round-trip airfare.

Look into flying home from Turin. That worked for me (Turin, Paris, Miami). You would need to spend the night before in Turin. I looked at google flights for Seattle and maybe Turin, Paris, Seattle or Turin, Amsterdam, Seattle work for you.

I visited Nice after leaving Cinque Terre and flew from there to Montreal to Chicago,

Malpensa (Milan) is probably going to be your least expensive airport in that area to fly home if you’re flying Delta/Sky Team. There’s a couple of hotels at the airport. I stayed at the MOXY last time.

I had a similar goal for our trip this June and could not make departure from CT back to the East Coast of the US work; we decided to move CT to the middle of our trip and found flights out from Bologna. Open jaw into Rome and out of Bologna were a good option for us, but Milan was a close second (we wanted to be in the Bologna area so that worked for our itinerary). CT seemed to be too difficult. We do have to connect in London from Bologna.

Genoa and Pisa are the only ones you could get to within the same day. Doing the near-airport night before seems to be the only alternative then, unless you want to put your CT visit earlier--which could be better depending on the month.

I am not sure what you mean by “late flight times”. I would much rather have a mid-day departure than a super early one.

We always fly British Airways when we go to Italy, which we do a lot (3 times in 2022-2023).

They offer a flight from Pisa to Heathrow to Seattle, departing Pisa at 12:20, with a 2-hour 15 minute layover at Heathrow, departing there on BA49 at 16:00 (our favored flight). You arrive back at SEA at 17:45, which we like—-just enough time to get home, settle in, have a light dinner, and go to sleep by 9 pm.

Overall flight time is 14.5 hours.

When we have been on the earlier flight to Seattle (BA 53) with a arrival here before noon, it makes for a very loooooong day before we can go to bed at our usual time (best practice for adjusting one’s body clock after crossing 7 time zones).

You would have no trouble booking open-jaw (multi-city) into Rome and back from Pisa with BA.

Next month, we are flying home to Seattle from Milan on Turkish Airlines - we opted for the 23 hour layover and the airline offers a free 5 hour tour of the city with dinner included. Fun way to get a quick glimpse of Istanbul. :)
BTW, we are flying from Seattle on Westjet (through Calgary) and direct to Rome.
Hope that helps! :)

We are doing this next month. I used my Alaska Air miles, so that influenced my choice. But we are taking the train to Rome for an overnight and departing from there the following afternoon. It will be enough time for an evening food tour to end out our trip and hopefully a morning stop at the Coliseum the next morning before heading to the airport by noon for a 3:30pm flight. We will have a connection in Reykjavik and then on to Seattle. It was the most affordable, shortest trip available. We connect onward to Juneau from Seattle and arrive home at midnight.