USA Multi City Flight Advice

nomad1972

Just starting to think about next years holiday and ideally I'd like to fly from London to the US visiting Vegas, Wahington and ending up in New York. I was thinking London to Vegas, then Washington and finally New York would be the logical order but think hitting Washington first may be cheaper.

I was pricing up some one-way flights last night and they were scary prices. I suppose I could get return flights and then just not use one portion of the flight. Would that be okay?

Does anyone have any tips on the best way to plan the flights? Or is it just a case of booking one at a time and looking for the best prices as you go?

I did search the forums first but can't really see anything that helped me.

whatmichaelsays

From the sounds of it, you are booking various seperate flights on single tickets. Instead, try and search for a "multi-flight" ticket on the likes of Kayak / Skyscanner, etc.

My brother is doing London - New York - LA - Manchester (via Paris). It worked out much cheaper with a multi-flight ticket through Delta (although the LA-Paris-Manchester leg is with Air France). It is also all under one booking reference, making it a hell of a lot easier.

misa.blue

Hi, you want to go to https://www.Kayak.com and search for multi city flights. That will allow you to book return from different city.
You can also put there the inland flights or book them separately.
I'm going to LA and back from Las Vegas next April and price is around £560 per person. We will fly from San Fran to Vegas on domestic flight which we book separately and that is only about £50 pp :-)
Good luck!

richardw

You might be able to do LHR-WAS-LAS-NYC-LHR on http://travel.united.com/ube/core/gb/shop.do?shop_triptype=multicity&lang=en&shop_from0=&shop_to0=&shop_departmonth0=2010-10&shop_departday0=31&shop_departtime0=&shop_departmonth1=2010-11&shop_departday1=07&shop_departtime1=&shop_viewresults=SCHEDULE&shop_passenger0=1-ADT&shop_passenger1=0-SRC&shop_passenger2=0-CNN&shop_serviceclass=ECONOMY-NON-REFUNDABLE&shop_cabinrefundable=off&shop_cabinclass=ECONOMY&shop_promotioncode=

wattywattwatt

I think you may be able to book multiple journeys on the Continental airways website, we did this a few years ago and it was pretty reasonable at the time.

misa.blue

We found that if booking with BA or Continental, you don't get very big choice of the inland flights compared to booking them separately..

BusinessStudent

On Virgin Atlantic's website you can choose to fly from London to Vegas and fly back from Washington DC or NY. You could then book your own internal flights on www.kayak.com. This may work out cheaper

Also you can get the Megabus www.megabus.com from NY to DC or DC to NY. They serve alot of the North East Coast and fares are incredibly cheap if you book a few weeks in advance! (Make sure you click on the US flag when you enter the website)

Doshwaster

misa.blue wrote: »

We found that if booking with BA or Continental, you don't get very big choice of the inland flights compared to booking them separately..

Now that BA have a tie-up with American Airlines and have merged their booking systems you should be able to book most, if not all, routes through either airline on a single booking.

BA's telephone advisers are very good at helping with complex itineraries but you will have to pay a booking fee (£15 I think). You won't if you plan everything yourself online. You need to book a "Multi city" trip rather than a series of singles.

Alternatively, book the transatlantic flight as an "Open Jaw" (London - X then Y - London) and book the internal flights on someone like Jet Blue or Southwestern who are the US equivalents of Easyjet and Ryanair.

Just be prepared to be flexible. Adjusting your plans slightly can often save you a lot of money.

richardw

I doubt BA/AA fly WAS-LAS.

Doshwaster

richardw wrote: »

I doubt BA/AA fly WAS-LAS.

Not directly but AA will via Dallas FW or Chicago

liamleon

Just got back from a holiday, we flew LHR-SFO-LAS-JFK-LHR.

I managed to get the flights to San Fran and back to Heathrow for £345 (all in) booked in Jan. I found that the internal flights had loads of availability and just use Kayak a month before we traveled to buy them.

We flew JetBlue and they were pretty good.