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Mar 10, 2013 | 9:30 am

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mherdeg

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Originally Posted by tripledip

Just wondering if anyone can spin their magic and find some cheapy fare from BDL to PDX on 6.28, one way. Dotbomb has it over $400, but when I do a multicity thru EWR, it drops a few bucks (why this option isn't offered on a normal search is beyond me). So that tells me there must be some other multicity pairing that might get the fare even lower, with the added bonus of xtra miles. I tried HOU and LAS, usually a good bet, but not this time. If there were a crazy deal, I could swing BOS-PDX, but not preferred.

ITA's fare engine (http://matrix.itasoftware.com/) is pretty good at doing this kind of heavy lifting. For BDL-PDX on 6/28 it gives me a $353.70 BDL-DCA-IAH-PDX, priced as a HFD-WAS fare plus a WAS-PDX fare.

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