Trying to get flights from USA to UK , booking from UK?

speedy22

AS the £ is strong against the $, I am trying to get flights for my sister to come from San Fran to Edinburgh. Is there website that will let me do this?
Booking from UK to USA is cheaper than USA to UK so I wondered if I could book the flights from the UK end? E.G. Edinburgh to San Fran = £350, for my sister to book San Fran to Edinburgh is $1,000 = £500. Why is this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as she is desperate to come home for a break and money is tight.

ahall41116

speedy22 wrote: »

AS the £ is strong against the $, I am trying to get flights for my sister to come from San Fran to Edinburgh. Is there website that will let me do this?
Booking from UK to USA is cheaper than USA to UK so I wondered if I could book the flights from the UK end? E.G. Edinburgh to San Fran = £350, for my sister to book San Fran to Edinburgh is $1,000 = £500. Why is this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as she is desperate to come home for a break and money is tight.

i tried this a couple of weeks ago, expedia.com lets you select your country as US, but i found that they still were not that cheap - i suspect she would be better off going to a local travel agent (i assume they exist in the US) and getting you to wire the money across to her (or pay by your credit card over the phone...)

hope this helps

Murphy_The_Cat

I've just tried a few fares on www.aa.com
and it didn't matter whether you were booking from Great Britain or the USA - the fare was the same (currency flucuations allowing) - whoops, I've just checked again and the fare can vary by about $20 - but certainly noting like the £150 that you were finding.

In other words, the fare for a EDI-SFO ticket, was near as dammit the same as a SFO-EDI ticket.

PBA

speedy22 wrote: »

E.G. Edinburgh to San Fran = £350, for my sister to book San Fran to Edinburgh is $1,000 = £500. Why is this?

It's because the airlines are pricing for demand. If people are willing to pay $500 to come from the US to Edinburgh then that's what they'll charge. There's less demand to go the other way so they charge less for flying from Edinburgh to the US. In the eyes of the airline the "product" you're buying isn't the flights themselves, but a trip to either Edinburgh or SFO.