Multiple stopovers in USA
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Multiple stopovers in USA
I am flying from Sydney to New York in Septemebr but would also like multiple stopovers. I think I can book a flight from Sydney to NYC with a stopover in LAX but would also like to stop in Vegas, SFO and HNL.
Does anyone have any ideas on how we could do this economically as I am sure it would be expensive to book them as internal flights in the USA
Cheers
Phoebe
Does anyone have any ideas on how we could do this economically as I am sure it would be expensive to book them as internal flights in the USA
Cheers
Phoebe
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Some ideas.
1. Book your transpacific flight as a cheap, fixed roundtrip -- SYD-SFO-SYD -- then try booking a separate multi-city ticket starting and ending in SFO: SFO-LAS-NYC-SFO. You don't say if you want to visit LAX or not, but if you do, you could enter / leave the US at LAX, and book LAX-LAS-NYC-SFO-LAX.
2. Nest a series of roundtrips: SYD-SFO-SYD, then within those dates book a cheap SFO-NYC-SFO, then work side trips from San Francisco to Vegas and L.A. into your San Francisco residency.
3. Consider substituting ground transport on SFO-LAX or out to LAS, for the scenery.
4. You can buy inexpensive one-way flights on Virgin America, JetBlue or Southwest for some of your desired segments. Look at www.sidestep.com which will show you all major airlines except Southwest; for that, go to www. southwest.com.
5. Check to see if United or Delta offer Australians domestic travel passes with a certain number of internal segments for a set price, such as QF offers Americans visiting Oz.
5. The one that is difficult to accommodate is HNL. A SYD-HNL-SFO-LAS-NYC-LAX-SYD ticket would be pricey, and it's a significant backtrack from the US west coast obviously. Still, I guess you could built a set of cheap nested roundtrips involving HNL as well: SYD-HNL-SYD, then HNL-SFO / LAX-HNL within those dates, then one-ways for all the others.
1. Book your transpacific flight as a cheap, fixed roundtrip -- SYD-SFO-SYD -- then try booking a separate multi-city ticket starting and ending in SFO: SFO-LAS-NYC-SFO. You don't say if you want to visit LAX or not, but if you do, you could enter / leave the US at LAX, and book LAX-LAS-NYC-SFO-LAX.
2. Nest a series of roundtrips: SYD-SFO-SYD, then within those dates book a cheap SFO-NYC-SFO, then work side trips from San Francisco to Vegas and L.A. into your San Francisco residency.
3. Consider substituting ground transport on SFO-LAX or out to LAS, for the scenery.
4. You can buy inexpensive one-way flights on Virgin America, JetBlue or Southwest for some of your desired segments. Look at www.sidestep.com which will show you all major airlines except Southwest; for that, go to www. southwest.com.
5. Check to see if United or Delta offer Australians domestic travel passes with a certain number of internal segments for a set price, such as QF offers Americans visiting Oz.
5. The one that is difficult to accommodate is HNL. A SYD-HNL-SFO-LAS-NYC-LAX-SYD ticket would be pricey, and it's a significant backtrack from the US west coast obviously. Still, I guess you could built a set of cheap nested roundtrips involving HNL as well: SYD-HNL-SYD, then HNL-SFO / LAX-HNL within those dates, then one-ways for all the others.
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I am flying from Sydney to New York in Septemebr but would also like multiple stopovers. I think I can book a flight from Sydney to NYC with a stopover in LAX but would also like to stop in Vegas, SFO and HNL.
Does anyone have any ideas on how we could do this economically as I am sure it would be expensive to book them as internal flights in the USA
Cheers
Phoebe
Does anyone have any ideas on how we could do this economically as I am sure it would be expensive to book them as internal flights in the USA
Cheers
Phoebe
HNL will be the real problem. It's a 7-8 flight from LAX. But depending on how much time you have for your holiday you might can get a reasonable roundtrip flight.
For flights LAX - LAs look at www.southwest.com