Just curious what others here do when they're looking to assemble a cheap coach itin for a group of a few people who don't particularly care about the miles/points/status game.

My example is MCI-FCO, off-peak (winter) travel. Throwing just those cities into Orbitz yields no competitive fares at all. ($1000+ for off-peak.) There's no pressure from Icelandair, Wow, Wizz, Aer Lingus, Norwegian, etc. And even the U.S. legacies don't really compete that strongly at MCI.

So I take a few guesses at where the "bones" of this itin might form, and I find JFK-FCO for $450 R/T on TAP. OK, I can get to some New York airport for $250 R/T without trying too hard...so there's something. I've got ORD-FCO for $550 R/T on Turkish...another lucky guess, could add Amtrak or Southwest to that. (Side bonus of being able to just drive it if there's any IROPS risk on the train or positioning flight.) I've also tried various permutations of itins that force DUB or KEF into the mix, just to see if the ULCC game is on the table.

But is there more of a comprehensive strategy? A site or sites that show a list of the cheapest TATL's at a given timeframe or given date? How do you guys go about doing this?

If it were me by myself, I'd probably just book a single AA fare and call it good. But with 8-10 tickets, there's *some* appeal to put together a multi-PNR itin, even with its drawbacks. The savings become material at that point.