Ticket search for multiple dests?
 

Does anyone know of an air ticket search engine which does the following in one search?

For a given set of dep/ret dates, find all available tickets on all airlines from a given US gateway to all European gateways reachable in two or less stops, and then list them in order of price.

For example: list by price all tickets available on all airlines lv May 12 ret June 20 from DSM to any European airport in two or fewer stops.

This is something I'd love to be able to do. I've found that sometimes the cheapest way to get to a given city in Europe is to look for the cheapest ticket from my US airport to any European gateway, and then get a separate cheap ticket from that city to my final destination city. But the only way I know to find out the cheapest ticket to anywhere in Europe is to log on to Kayak or Orbitz, etc., and search for a ticket to AMS, then search for a ticket to BRU, the search for a ticket to LHR, etc... and so on all through all the European air ports I can think of -- and there's always the possibility I might be missing some.

If anyone knows a site that does this, or a way to use an existing site to do this that I haven't figured out yet, pleas post. Thank you! :)

I realized after I wrote that, that if your local North American airport is a major international gateway like ORD, the number of European cities you can fly to in two stops maximum is probably huge. But I was thinking of cases where you would always have to make one stop to get to an international airport from a regional one, hence my use of DSM in the example. The specification should be revised to read something like, maximum of two North American stops with the transatlantic leg being non-stop. Or to put it another way, I'm looking for tickets from North America to any major European international airport, not "any European city."

One thing you could try using is ITA Software: http://matrix.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch/prego

You can't just type "any European city" in the destination field, but you can put in multiple airports separated by a semi colon (e.g. AMS;ARN;ATH;BRU;BUD;CPH;FRA;HEL;LIN;LIS;PAR;VIE) instead of punching them each individually.

And of course there are the gateway maps on FareCompare: http://www.farecompare.com/maps/comp...?departure=DSM

Thanks very much bcmatt -- I'll investigate those sites.

IME it doesn't work to well if you play that game with too many airports.