Originally Posted by
Ruspa90
first of all thank you. my search is a multi-route that has as departure airports (all Milan, blq, vrn, vce, tsf), as departure date 11 August (+/- 2 days), as destination airport (KUL, SIN) and as return date at least 14 days from the outward journey and no more than 18 days from the outward journey (I looked at that from the results but the dates can be 25,26,27,28,29), cheapest seat possible, with checked baggage in the hold. from the results I then filter flights that have a total duration of less than 20 hours. I can find interesting flights (less than 850 euros), especially Turkish airlines, but I am not able to understand where it gets the prices indicated, because even clicking on all the links the prices I find are decidedly higher. it would be useful to understand where it gets the price from. so can you be clearer? any operational advice is welcome. thanks
I see what you are talking about. Unfortunately, TK fares are often underreported on ITA. You can get flights within your date range between 830 to 860 euros on RTK but the layovers are exceptionally long. As you found, filtering for a shorter layover in IST causes the total cost to go up to approximately 1000 euros.
I would try looking on google flights and look at their date grid. But the bad news seems to be that if you want to restrict flights to a single connection point and a reasonable connection time, the cheapest flight you will get is around 1000 euros. I played with the flexible date booking option on the TK website and it is possible to get prices down to near 800 euros, but it comes at a cost of lengthy connections (> 20 hours).