general advice on trip planning?
January 5th, 2009
Last week's YYZ->MSP->DEN->SAN-LAX->ORD->YYZ being a good example, where I had to go all of those places for business.
Much fun though it is, I've found trying to put together cheap itineraries is taking a whole lot of time.
My upcoming itineraries are fairly similar:
YYZ->TPA->NYC->PHL->YYZ
YYZ->YUL->MLU->YYZ
YYZ->MSP->SNA/LAX->SEA->YYZ
YYZ->SJC->DEN->EWR->YYZ
Most of the time, as I will *not* do a Saturday night stay-over, I'm stuck with fairly pricey M or Y fares on either AC or UA. I also am usually in and out of these cities with a one-night stayover.
Sometimes though I find strangely priced fares:
YYZ->DEN (via MSP) and then ORD->YYZ on UA priced out at only $700 or so.
For some of these, I'll consider adding a CO or DL or NW segment when neither AC nor UA go to a city (i.e. MLU) but I won't touch the LCCs.
And, occasionally I'll drive to BUF if it is a mid-afternoon or evening flight.
Anyone with bright ideas? Is there something that's not obvious through the online sites?
Would it make sense to start "treating" ORD as my home-base instead of YYZ, and then I do do Saturday stays in YYZ?
Simon
[This message has been edited by Simon (edited 08-31-2003).]
As a case in point, I had a corp. client who wanted to visit branch offices throughout western/midwestern USA over course of 1 week recently. Rather than do the YYJ-PHX-LAS-CLE-YYJ option they wanted at well over CAD 2200, I found AS return YYJ-LAS fares with two sidetrips on HP & CO. All 3 roundtrips wound up just a hair over CAD 1000 and the biggest change to the preferred itinerary was an overnight in LAS, which was o.k. with the client and well worth the fare difference times 3 travellers.
Of course, that's just me two cents worth.
#If you have any other info about this subject , Please add it free.# |
