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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 10:41 pm
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warreng24
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Booking a US Airways trip found using ITA?

Let me start this out by saying that I usually use ITA to try to find the best routing for the price when I fly United. Then, I can usually (99% of the time) do a multi-city booking using united.com and find the exact same price (or less) and routing that I've found using ITA. This avoids booking fees.

So, I am trying to do the same thing using an itinerary consisting of all US Airways flights, and I'm having trouble booking it!

This is the itinerary I am trying to book:
Code:
29 Jan, US0959, BOS-CLT 
<connecting to>
30 Jan, US1773 CLT-SJO

02 Feb, US1774 SJO-CLT
<connecting to>
03 Feb US1800 CLT-BOS

Fare, BOS-SJO: EA28NK $149
Fare, SJO-BOS: EA28NK $149

Total (with taxes and fees): $383.54
When I try the multi-city booking on usairways.com, it books everything as individual segments rather than connections, thus it books into a higher V fare, with a total of $1550!

I've tried orbitz.com and it gives the same thing.

The closest I've found is priceline.com, I'm getting the $383.54 price with the overnight connections, but not with the exact same flight numbers listed above from ITA.

Any advice would be appreciated? I suspect that I could just try to do this the old-fashioned way and visit a Travel Agent, but I want to try to avoid booking fees.

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