Originally Posted by
Deckter
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.
Ah, of course! Sorry, it was a long day and I forgot we were leaving from CNS and arriving back in BNE. In my mind I was thinking of the right thing for an open jaw ticket, but in practice I forgot that this isn't one!
And yeah, for SQ we unfortunately gave them up when we decided to leave from Greece. If we were staying in ATH it'd probably be fine, but CHQ being smaller and more obscure definitely makes things harder to organise...
Originally Posted by
ludomaster
What about a cheap Ryanair/Wizz flight from Chania/Heraklion to somewhere more connected, eg Rome directly? Add a day in between as a buffer if you can, and you're all set!
We did think about this. We'd be getting an internal flight (probably on Aegean?) from Rome to CHQ around the 14th of November, so we definitely could make that a return ticket. My only concern is that if something happens at CHQ where the flight is delayed or cancelled and we miss out flight back to Rome for whatever reason, it means we'll miss our flight back home too. From what I've read and seen, if this was all a single ticket the airline would fix it (i.e. For the Lufthansa ticket, if the CHQ to ATH is delayed and we miss the ATH onward flight, they'll organise it to get us back on track themselves) but it seems if we get an internal one ourselves and there's a delay, the airline won't help us out? It would definitely make the flights easier though, but not sure if it's a concern we should have or not?