Originally Posted by
Herb687
Quoting airfare as the sum of 4 different passengers' tickets makes this conversation misleading and very hard to follow. Let's just focus on the cost of ONE ticket.
$500 per person RT for peak summer travel on AA from a midcon hub to Alaska sounds like a very good fare this far out.
The prices for kids and adults are - as I saw - the same. But true.
Originally Posted by
smartytravel
Flights from Europe to Alaska are frequently cheaper than flights from the US mainland to Alaska.
OP, I'd strongly think about booking a flight from Europe to Alaska, instead of complicating it with unnecessary connections in Dallas.
True, but as already said, the TA is a redemption flight.
Originally Posted by
Stripe
Oops. Never mind what I said above about the price. To be fair, the words "one way" and "OW" never appeared in any of the OP's posts. The closest he/she came was a reference to "DFW-SEA/PDX-ANC".
I assume writing DFW-ANC is OW. Otherwise it would have been DFW-ANC-DFW.