Non Specific Departure Airport

brummiekid

Hi Everyone
We are looking to visit Nevada in November for an airshow at Las Vegas and a visit to an air base near Pheonix. We are flexible to which town we arrive at (could even consider S.California).
More importantly we are flexible which airport we can fly from in the UK (we are in the Midlands).
Most websites ask for a departure point which means hours of searching as we don't really mind where we fly from (Never will I ever fly from Stansted again though!).
Does anyone know of a site which allows "fuzzy" searches?
Thanks
Mark F
:beer:

Crabman

Try Skyscanner which allows you select "Any Airport (UK)" as an option :beer:

Also look at the FlightChecker where you could check the box "All Departures" - it now includes some US destinations.

Nordictat2

Hi Mark...

I gave a quick search for the middle of nov. (8-15 nov. from Heathrow) on travelsupermarket website and I got under £300 (inc. ALL taxes) per person to Las Vegas with Air Canada
You can tinker around with it a bit as it gives you up 3 choices from the airport you want/can leave from.

Here's the link: http://www.travelsupermarket.com/travelmerge/travelsearch.aspx?package=4

Hope it helps

brummiekid

Hi &Thanks for the replies.

Skyscanner produced the most expensive yet at £1180!

Will keep looking though.

Thanks

Nordictat2

Well I found 550 quid for a total of 2 adults on the site i told you aboutvso is that not good enough or ?

blindman

brummiekid wrote: »

Hi Everyone
We are looking to visit Nevada in November for an airshow at Las Vegas and a visit to an air base near Pheonix. We are flexible to which town we arrive at (could even consider S.California).
More importantly we are flexible which airport we can fly from in the UK (we are in the Midlands).
Most websites ask for a departure point which means hours of searching as we don't really mind where we fly from (Never will I ever fly from Stansted again though!).
Does anyone know of a site which allows "fuzzy" searches?
Thanks
Mark F
:beer:

If you have that many choices of departure and arrival points I'd contact people like Trailfinders and let them do the hard work.

I did this kind of trip a couple of years back.

Went to Pima Air and Space museum and the Titan Missle base near to Tucson.

Flew with BA direct to Phoenix (bad choice of airline) but it was direct from LHR.

I live in the East Midlands so have a varied choice of airports.

Usually go with somewhere I can

1 Park cheaply (tends to be LHR with Purple parking .(TIPO code)

2 Miss all the traffic into\out of airport (Stanstead...)

3 Small so not crowded (East Midlands-AKA Nottingham Airport)

4 Cheap flights (LHR??)

Arrival for this trip.

You should be able to arriive at PHX and leave via LAS (or vice versa) for no extra cost.

It's about 4 (boring) hours drive from LAS to PHX apart from the windfarm at Palm Springs

Is the Air show from Nellis?

brummiekid

Nordictat2 wrote: »

Hi Mark...

I gave a quick search for the middle of nov. (8-15 nov. from Heathrow) on travelsupermarket website and I got under £300 (inc. ALL taxes) per person to Las Vegas with Air Canada
You can tinker around with it a bit as it gives you up 3 choices from the airport you want/can leave from.

Here's the link: http://www.travelsupermarket.com/travelmerge/travelsearch.aspx?package=4

Hope it helps

Hi Nordict
Sorry but the website link you gave has not worked for me all night. I have re-booted and put the main website address in and it is now working.
Really appreciate your help earlier.
Thanks
Mark F:T

alanrowell

Try https://www.kayak.co.uk as it has "nearby airports" tick boxes for departure & arrival airports

brummiekid

blindman wrote: »

If you have that many choices of departure and arrival points I'd contact people like Trailfinders and let them do the hard work.

I did this kind of trip a couple of years back.

Went to Pima Air and Space museum and the Titan Missle base near to Tucson.

Flew with BA direct to Phoenix (bad choice of airline) but it was direct from LHR.

I live in the East Midlands so have a varied choice of airports.

Usually go with somewhere I can

1 Park cheaply (tends to be LHR with Purple parking .(TIPO code)

2 Miss all the traffic into\out of airport (Stanstead...)

3 Small so not crowded (East Midlands-AKA Nottingham Airport)

4 Cheap flights (LHR??)

Arrival for this trip.

You should be able to arriive at PHX and leave via LAS (or vice versa) for no extra cost.

It's about 4 (boring) hours drive from LAS to PHX apart from the windfarm at Palm Springs

Is the Air show from Nellis?

Hi - thanks for the detailed response.
Yes the airshow is at Nellis on 10/11 November. It seems such a waste to travel all that way and not cram in as much as possible!
We want to visit the desert boneyard at Davis Monthan, and to please my travelling companion we need to find a decent roller coaster somewhere!
The airfare seems to hover around the £300 mark so it may be the time to go as the pound is strong against the dollar.
The sad thing is that I live about 8 minutes drive from Birmingham Airport and never seem to be able to get the flight I want!
Regards
Mark F

blindman

The Boneyard is next to Pima.

It's absolutely HUGE.

However, I did not go in, just drove around it.

Pima is good, Titan was scary...

I spent two weeks at Nellis in my other life....