One way flight with Virgin Atlantic - more expensive?

scotslad1983

Looking to book a trip to Las Vegas for our honeymoon in November.

Flight times aren't great for both parts of our journey; BA are better outward, Virgin Atlantic are better for return portion only. However, when I try to book one way with Virgin it gives me a price of approx £1000, (round trip is only £1100). Is this correct?

Alternatively, booking all the way through with BA, if we use a budget airline to get to Heathrow, then that airline lets us down, are we entitled to compensation?

apt

No you are not entitled to compensation from the budget airline for the missed connecting flight, but you could claim from travel insurance providing you had allowed reasonable time between flights. It's usual for single flights to be more expensive than returns on airlines apart from Ryanair, easyJet etc.

Vikki_74

scotslad1983 wrote: »

Looking to book a trip to Las Vegas for our honeymoon in November.

Flight times aren't great for both parts of our journey; BA are better outward, Virgin Atlantic are better for return portion only. However, when I try to book one way with Virgin it gives me a price of approx £1000, (round trip is only £1100). Is this correct?

Alternatively, booking all the way through with BA, if we use a budget airline to get to Heathrow, then that airline lets us down, are we entitled to compensation?

Yes those prices will be right - one way transatlantic flights with the likes of Virgin, BA etc are always expensive compared to a round trip, they're not like budget airlines where it's expected that you will book single tickets outbound and return. You could try a combination of BA and American Airlines or others in the same 'group' to see if the flight times are any better coming back, but again would book the whole thing as a return trip.

The short answer to your second question is no. If you booked internal and transatlantic flights all as one ticket with BA they would sort you out, if you book them separately it's tough luck, you're on your own if one flight is delayed and you miss your connection as a result.

richardw

Look at through ticketing from EDI or GLA to LAS Vegas.

knightstyle

Some time ago it was cheaper to buy a return BA flight from Nantes than a single!!!!!!!

pompeyrich

Single tickets, with say B.A. are usually a lot more flexible, you can cancel and get a full refund, and change your travel dates and only pay the difference in fare. The cheapest returns are non-refundable, apart from taxes and cost £100 plus the difference in fare to amend travel dates. So not really comparing like with like.

neilbond007

scotslad1983 wrote: »

Looking to book a trip to Las Vegas for our honeymoon in November.

Flight times aren't great for both parts of our journey; BA are better outward, Virgin Atlantic are better for return portion only. However, when I try to book one way with Virgin it gives me a price of approx £1000, (round trip is only £1100). Is this correct?

As mentioned by other people - yes this is correct.
When I moved over here 2 1/2 years ago a one way ticket was £800. A return was £350.

bagand96

Alternatively, booking all the way through with BA, if we use a budget airline to get to Heathrow, then that airline lets us down, are we entitled to compensation?

As others have said, you will not be covered unless you have decent travel insurance. Also, no budget airlines fly into Heathrow, so you'd be looking at getting to Stansted/Luton/Gatwick and then onwards to Heathrow. Usually if booking with BA the Scotland-London leg can be sold all on one ticket at a reasonable cost. It may not be as cheap as easyjet down to london, but its so much more convinient to check in at GLA/EDI, and not have to see your bags again until Vegas. T5 is also very easy to connect through. Added to that, if anything goes wrong BA will look after you, and get you to Vegas ASAP, also paying for hotel if neccesary.

getmore4less

Try some of the US consolidators,

I use 1800flyeurope and bt-store to look for 1ways to tie up with transatlantic cruises.

if it say major european airline look at the times to match up with the real airline and usualy there is a show more flights option if the times are not your prefered ones.

coral

i echo bagand96 - book BA - you can usually get the domestic tag on for little or no extra and they'll look after you and your luggage all the way though. Connecting through on the way is particularly easy as you don't have to reclear security at T5, you arrive straight into the departures lounge.

If it goes wrong they'll just rebook you on to Vegas either the next day or via another airport and an AA flight onwards if that would be quicker, all at no cost to you.

claire16c

I agree just book the whole lot with BA/AA, if anything goes wrong with your first flight you will be very glad you did. Its not worth it for sake of saving a few quid and flying with a budget airline and trapsing across London.