Vegas Flight Question

Leew_80

Hi all, new to the forum so hoping this is in the right place.

I have just been playing about on Expedia, loking at flight options to Las Vegas. Something I do all the time to find the best time to go!

So, in order to get a comparison, I take the same dates (in this case 17th-24th February 2014) and change the variables like direct/in-direct/1 stop/2 stop.

This time I decided to change the departure location and ended up with the following result.

London Gatwick - Las Vegas (Direct, flight Virgin Atlantic VS43) = £633

Dublin - Gatwick (Aer Lingus), Gatwick - Las Vegas (Virgin Atlantic VS43) = £533.

So an extra flight, and the main leg of the journey is exactly the same but £100 less. How is that possible?!?

Would it be possible to book the 2 flights but check in at Gatwick for just the 2nd leg?

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Lee

mcfisco

Leew_80 wrote: »

Hi all, new to the forum so hoping this is in the right place.

I have just been playing about on Expedia, loking at flight options to Las Vegas. Something I do all the time to find the best time to go!

So, in order to get a comparison, I take the same dates (in this case 17th-24th February 2014) and change the variables like direct/in-direct/1 stop/2 stop.

This time I decided to change the departure location and ended up with the following result.

London Gatwick - Las Vegas (Direct, flight Virgin Atlantic VS43) = £633

Dublin - Gatwick (Aer Lingus), Gatwick - Las Vegas (Virgin Atlantic VS43) = £533.

So an extra flight, and the main leg of the journey is exactly the same but £100 less. How is that possible?!?

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Mich81

There have been discussions about this in the Las Vegas thread at the top of the page - few people have done it.

You need to take all the connections of the flight, otherwise the next leg will be cancelled - but it can still work out cheaper even taking into account getting to Dublin.

claire16c

You'd need to start at Dublin & therefore pay to get to Dublin.