Travel from Cantania in Sicily to San Antonio TX

What advice do you need?

Fight options would be easy to find on flights/google.com, kayak, expedia...

My problem is that most of the flights require an overnight stay on a stopover. For instance many of them at Heathrow. Well, if you leave the secure area you would have to go through customs there as well as in USA and that isn’t even dealing with the COVID issue on travelers from Britain.

Just wondering if some have gone from there or other places in Sicily to anyplace in Texas and what their advise is

Going over to Europe you will arrive the next day. When we went over to Sicily we flew through Munich going over and Frankfurt on the return. In each of those cities we had a 3-4 hour layover. Since you’re further west, it may be hard right now to get a flight itinerary that is perfect for you since the airlines’ schedules are not as they were pre-COVID. Hopefully, more flights will get added the longer countries stay open.

I’m assuming the difficulty with your routing is when you fly back to San Antonio. I would look at flying from Catania to Rome or maybe Milan the day before your transAtlantic flight. No immigration, since you are still in Italy (and hopefully this will work for COVID as well). The next day you ought to be able to fly Rome-Somewhere in US-San Antonio.

I have not flown that route but a look at skyscanner.com for a random date in July shows an 18hr journey that stops in Munich and Chicago enroute to San Antonio
Another choice was via Frankfurt ( rather than Munich)

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Ina, my advice would be to get a flight to either Rome or Milan (with your transfer airport being in the United States), stay overnight there, and then get a local flight to Catania. That way you aren't dealing with immigration and emigration issues anywhere but Italy and the United States.

We had a hard time finding reasonable return flights from Catania to US as well a couple of years ago. Moving the schedule around ± a day or two opened up more options. Maybe its a day of the week thing. We ended up flying out from Palermo to Munich on Lufthansa. In the past, there have been seasonal direct flights to/from Newark (maybe JFK as well) to Palermo.

I have flown round trip from New Orleans to Sicily twice in the past three years. Both times, I flew New Orleans -> US east coast -> Rome -> Palermo, then reversed the journey, flying out of Catania to Rome, then US east coast, then New Orleans. Going over each time, I scheduled approx. 4 hour lay over in Rome before making Air Italia connection to Palermo (separate tickets). Going back each time I flew on Air Italia from Catania to Rome then scheduled one or more nights in Rome before flying home from Rome. I would not want to fly from Catania to the States on separate tickets without spending at least one night in Rome or Milan BECAUSE you just don't know what delay you might have flying our of Catania. For example: Mt. Etna is known to spew ash on occasion and all flights out of Catania are delayed or canceled, sometimes for days. (This happened to some folks on a RS Sicily tour several years ago, and they had to all hustle to make new connections from Palermo or Naples.) If you can manage to create a schedule from Catania all the way home to Texas on one ticket (who is US partner airline to AIr Italia?) then you might risk it, because if your Catania-Rome flight gets delayed, the airline is contractually bound to still get you home.

I have taken the advice to fly to Rome and then schedule my flight home after a night’s stay by the airport in Rome.

Thanks to all of you that replied