I have a Rick Steves tour planned for The Best of Portugal in May. I have not purchased airline tickets as of yet. It’s about 6 months out. Have I missed my window? The prices seem quite high. Am I being too picky to want just one stopover, 2 1/2 to 3 hour layover, not changing airline companies midway and not arriving too late in the evening?
Posted by
WA USA
1069 posts
Not sure if you are being too picky. What airport are you flying out of?
Even if you pick a 3 hour connection, it could change by the time of your flight. I've not had any of my flights remain the same from the time I purchased them to the actual trip. I traveled a couple of times since covid and have a trip planned for Dec, so I learned to be very flexible and gave up on caring too much as long as I manage to get from Point A to Point B. But hopefully everything flight wise will be more stable going forward and the flights you pick, will be the actual flights you take.
Posted by
Hudson Valley
2267 posts
Something sounds off—TAPPortugal is usually very competitively priced. From NYC and BOS, at least.
Posted by
Cascais, Portugal
1663 posts
I’ve been traveling back and forth, as have my family, for over seven years now, and they are always costly unless you are just traveling from the east coast. Plan to pay around $1000 round trip.
And, all the airlines only make one trip a day and in the case of TAP, not every day. It will be depend on the airline as to what time you arrive. I’ve never seen a flight arriving later than 6:00 pm from the States.
Use Skyscanner or Google Flights to search. These sights seem to have the best variety and direct you to the airline for booking.
Posted by
OP
2 posts
I will check out these sites and keep watching the fares. We are traveling from San Francisco in May,2023. thank you for your thoughts.
Posted by
Gettysburg PA
6013 posts
Be sure you are searching for a "multi-city" flight or "open jaw" not 2 one way tickets.
Flights from Dulles to Lisbon on TAP are about $500 right now for dates in next August.
Posted by
WA USA
1069 posts
TAP Air Portugal has direct flights out of SFO and they frequently will have cheap tickets. In the past, I've flown out of SFO (took a cheap domestic flight from Seattle there) to take advantage of a great deal.
Right now, Air Canada has some inexpensive flights, with one connection, to Lisbon in May.