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BCN to LAX in late December
Mon, 08/04/2008 - 08:30
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I want to go from Barcelona to Los Angeles in late December (on or after the 17th) and return about a month later (it would be great if I could stop in Philly for a few days on the way back, around the 12th of January).

On ITA British Airways offers BCN-LAX trip for about 650 euros, which isn’t bad. Does anyone think that I can do any better? The round trip is straight forward, but if I want to land in Philly on the way back everything seems to get 100% more complicated, and about 50% more expensive.

Landing in Philly on the return leg adds about 300 euros to the cost of the flight, which seems a little outrageous to me.

I was thinking that I could take the bus from Philly to NYC and then fly from there, but the prices turn out about the same.

Any ideas on how to go about this?

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Mon, 08/04/2008 - 09:52
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It will most likely be cheapest and easiest if you do an “open-jaw” itinerary, aka “multi-stop” — BCN-LAX, PHL-BCN, and then add LAX-PHL separately. Mobissimo and Kayak have very good multi-city flight searches. ITA will help you narrow down cheapest travel days, then try them with Kayak and Mobissimo. Orbitz also has a very good +/- 3 day travel window search.