My friend and I are trying to find a cheap flight home to Ottawa, ON or Montreal from Greece. Are there any apps or websites that you know of that you can either sign up for emails or alerts when flights go on sale? I know of one app called "Hopper" but as far as I know you can only track flights that are round trip.
Thanks
Have you tried https://www.skyscanner.com/
Or kayak.com
Google flight is the best I have ever used, simple, great calendar views, does major airlines and smaller Europe only airlines, no pop up ads, and options to refine your search in many ways. If you have a Google account your search can be saved./google flights
I don't use alerts because they've never worked for me in the past....but I do track flights for months to get a good deal (I use itasoftware which is part of Google). I also use budget carriers whenever I can (Turkish Air is a good one, but there are many, many others).
I use Kayak for searching. It's easy to work with. Don't know when you're flying but Air Transat has some nonstops from Athens to Montreal....maybe two days per week...about $750 in September. Condor does it with one stop right into Ottawa at about the same price.
I don't buy from Kayak though...I buy right from the airline's website and suggest you do that as well.
What month are you flying each way and do you already have a ticket purchased from Ottawa to Athens (or are you flying to a different airport)? Sometimes it can be cheaper to fly round trip to Europe or open jaw (multiple city search).
Others have suggested some great search tools for flights. I always use itasoftware.com as you can choose multiple airports and do monthlong searches to pinpoint low fare dates. Google bought skyscanner and dressed it up but I like some of the original site's functions best. I use skyscanner too as it turns up more budget airlines usually within Europe.
I start looking for airfares by looking into Wikipedia under the airports' name. I'm looking for budget airlines.
Ottawa is a relatively small airport, and you're limited to flying Air Canada to Frankfurt or London-Heathrow. It's easy to get a budget flight into London from Greece. I don't know if Air Canada offers decent prices on one way flights west from Europe--pretty doubtful.
Montreal has many more flights available, but most are on "legacy" carriers are full price. You might check Turkish Airlines, WOW Airlines or Icelandic Airlines to see what they have available.
Another option would be to look at budget air carriers flying into/out of Boston or JFK--like Norwegian Air Shuttle.
If you are trying to piece together an itinerary using one-way tickets you are inviting lots of grief, at least crossing the Atlantic. It is a good idea to fly into one city and return home from another but to find decent prices you need to search for a round-trip itinerary use the "multi-city" or multi-destination search function on Air Canada/WestJet/Air Transat or whatever.
The most comprehensive source of information is www.itasoftware.com run by Google for airlines. It doesn't sell tickets but the information can be useful. No one site covers all flights and the easiest source for European short-hop budget flights is www.skyscanner.com These low-cost airlines operate on one-way tickets rather than round trips and most of them do not connect to flights on other carriers, and often don't even connect to their own flights. But they can be very cheap. And they don't appear on North American-oriented websites.
For the intercontinental part of your itinerary, Cheapoair.com, airfarewatchdog.com and other search sites do offer notifications but you are better off signing up with the individual airlines. And don't bet on there being sales that suit your itinerary. Prices appear to be edging down a little bit compared to last summer trans-Atlantic but the amount of worry and stress involved in waiting and watching to save $100 is not worth it. For the European budget lines, prices only go up so buy as early as possible.
Your post from January says that you're flying to London Gatwick this July 5 and your return plan is flexible. I join the others in their concern that you might not find an affordable one-way flight home. If any of the suggestions above helps you find a decent fare, then I'd book it now, rather than waiting longer. Maybe there are some last-minute apps or deals out there, but you're taking a risk to count on those.
