Best way (or place) to book a multi-leg ticket?

I would try calling one of the airlines and have them assist you in booking it. I booked a multi-leg online (using Continental's website) and the flights were both Continental and Air France.

Hi, "neighbor"!

What are your routes and dates?

"I would try calling one of the airlines and have them assist you in booking it. I booked a multi-leg online (using Continental's website) and the flights were both Continental and Air France."

I did try that but there are only two airlines that fly out of Bismarck. United's system can't handle it because they don't partner with anyone who flies out of GRX.

I could not tell why Northwest's site couldn't handle it. It will be a couple days before I can call their customer service to find out, considering how much time I will have to have available to do so.

"What are your routes and dates?"

March 16 - BIS to PDX ;
March 18 - PDX to MAD ;
March 24 - GRX to ONT ;
March 28 - ONT to BIS ;

I wouldnt include the Madrid to Granada flight into your plans...i would book that separately thru Spanair or Ryan air...In March of this year, we booked a flight into Malaga and out of Barcelona as our "main" ticket. We flew into Malaga, caught the bus to Granada, bus to Algeciras then ferry to Morocco, bus from Algeciras to Sevilla. Outside of our "main" ticket, we then flew on Spanair from Sevilla to Barcelona for about $35 (one way, no airport hassle at all!) and then flew from Barcelona back to the US. Any reason you have to fly to Portland to leave instead of say, JFK? By the way, i plugged your iteneray into tripadvisor.com and it shows $1585 as your ticket right now....go there and play around with the dates/airports. Flights within a coutnry in Europe are so super cheap (unlike here)!

We're not flying from Madrid to Granada. That part was unclear. We're flying from Portland to Madrid and then later flying from Granada to Ontario.

I'm finding lots of affordable airfares online. The problem is when I actually go to book it, the website says something about the itinerary is unbookable after all. And never until I get through everything, including the seat selections and inputting my credit card information. But the error message never explains what aspect is unbookable.

"Any reason you have to fly to Portland to leave instead of say, JFK?"

We're getting married in Portland and then Spain is the honeymoon.

I suggest you check the fares for booking separate open jaw (multi-city) tickets:

1. BIS-PDX and ONT-BIS

2. PDX-MAD and GRX-ONT

After you get the various airline possibilities from Orbitz or another site, then go to each airline's site and see if you get a better fare by booking directly on the airline's site.

What may be an issue is that you have 2 stopovers in your itinerary since the stops are over 24 hours. Check the fare rules of the ticket to see if this is not allowed even though it seems to be pricing it for you. I wouldn't be surprised if the computer is treating this as a US-Europe round trip but is being throw-off by the stopovers. Most cheap fares do not allow any stopovers.