Booking flights to Sicily

For an International flight, I start looking as soon as I know rough dates. I am just trying to get an idea of what to expect for cost. I do not get too excited about buying though until somewhere between 6 and 3 months to go.

It helps in my case that I travel enough that I know for my situation, anything under $1000 is a decent deal, so if I see that, I buy. Since on my airline changes are free, and cancelling gets me a credit for future use, the risk is low. I have booked, seen lower fares, rebooked the same dates, and taken a credit for my next trip a couple times.

For Sicily, your dilemma will be whether to just fly round trip to Rome, spending days at the beginning or end there, and then flying another airline to and from Sicily, or to try to book flights through to Sicily and back with one airline.

A question to think about now (as suggested in the previous reply) is whether you want to try to do it all in one shot or stop in Rome for a nite or more. Depending on where you live there it may take two stops to get to Palermo which makes for a long day. Furthermore you'd want to avoid any trips that aren't booked on a single ticket since if you miss the last leg to Sicily nobody is required to put you on another flight. But those may be the solutions with the best cost or departure times.

We flew to Rome, changed planes for Sicily and flew there, landing in Palermo. .Very easy.