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Old Feb 2, 2025 | 7:03 am
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Originally Posted by Opaquer
Thanks chris63 and Deckter , I appreciate the input. I did see it priced by an online travel agent before making the post but didn't want to go ahead with it, and was thinking of using a travel agent as a last measure if I couldn't get it working! It's just a shame because before we decided to go with Greece, we were flying back from Rome and it was suoer easy - we found some good flights on SQ that were great and worked perfectly, and could be booked through the SQ website and whatnot, but as soon as we went to add Greece, it's made things a whole lot harder! Even more so because like you said, it can be priced and found on Google flights which is annoying!

Also Deckter, I didn't quite get what you meant by this part - though again, this could just be my inexperience showing:


Is this not already an open jaw flight? If not, what would an example be of an open jaw? If there's something I can do to change it and book it directly I'd be down, and even if not, I'd be down for learning, as although this is out first major holiday, we don't plan on it being our last, that's for sure.

I'll keep playing around with things in case we find something that works, but otherwise I'll talk to a travel agent and see if they can find the flights and make the booking for us :-)
Few things here:

- You currently have a double open jaw, meaning you have A-B-C-D, which many airlines don't want to sell or only allow in higher booking classes. If you would make it BNE-LHR and CHQ-BNE, that would be a single open jaw. If you do that, you can fly on QR and book directly on their website.

- You can't buy the flights on the SQ website probably because SQ doesn't publish fares between CHQ and BNE, while it does between FCO and BNE.

- CHQ is a rather obscure airport that not many airlines fly into, so many of them won't have fares published for a city pair that involves said airport.
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