Advice re: USA flights

stevenwill

Hi All,

Wondering if you may be able to share some pearls of wisdom. My wife is American and we are heading to the US for her family's vacation in april/may, and doing quite a bit of travelling around the states in the process.

She lives in the midwest but we are finishing the trip in Salt Lake City, Utah as her friend is getting married there. The internal flight from Indianapolis to Salt Lake City has been taken care of and booked, but basically we are hoping to fly from London (as is normal as its cheaper, but I'm from South Wales) to meet her family, but then flying home on the return from a completely different city.

Does anyone have any recommended web sites or travel companies to recommend that can sort us out flights at reasonable rates?

Any advice or input is greatly appreciated!
Thanks guys

Caz3121

Have a look at Google Flights or ITA Matrix and search on Multi-city/Open Jaw...if you are using Skyscanner or Kayak then you will note that there will no doubt be flights advertised through Third Parties that look cheaper than the airline direct. If tempted by these you first need to understand that many of these agencies do not use live pricing so very often these prices do not exist
You will make your request for a flight and pay your money
They will contact you and say the seats at that price are sold out and they need more money or you can wait a few weeks for a refund
Or sometimes they don't call and people have turned up at the airport to find they had no booking
Check out reviews and read the horror stories and book direct with the airline

richardw

Look at multi city open jaw tickets on Delta.

Westin

Ditto above. Delta operate a Salt Lake City > London Heathrow service.

Virgin Atlantic also code share the flight so might also be worth pricing up an open jaw (or multi city itinerary) with VS.

Blue264

So you're looking to fly into Indianapolis and back from Salt Lake City? This would be an open jaw and not a multi-city ticket. Do you have dates in mind?

jpsartre

Blue264 wrote: »

So you're looking to fly into Indianapolis and back from Salt Lake City? This would be an open jaw and not a multi-city ticket.

It's called multi-city with most airlines.

richardw

Blue264 wrote: »

So you're looking to fly into Indianapolis and back from Salt Lake City? This would be an open jaw and not a multi-city ticket.....

Yes, but Delta's website doesn't have an 'open jaw' flight booking selection for the pedants out there, it does however have 'multi city' option which also allows 'open jaw' bookings and helps the OP.

malid

I'm not sure about 'open jaw' flights now. I have booked to one city and back from another and as a previous poster says, sites market these as multi city.


My husband and I (we too are from Wales btw) have made several trips to the USA and yes we fly from London Heathrow. I have booked direct with airlines - BA, Virgin but I have also used third party sites like Expedia, Ebookers, Netflights if prices are better. I have not had any problem and the price was always the one on the screen.


I would definitely look at Kayak for a price guide then look at options and go to those sites directly. Not sure if there are direct flights to Indianapolis but search tools obviously allow you to chose direct, one stop or two. Good luck.