Booking a US Airways trip found using ITA?
Sep 8, 2008, 10:41 pm
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Booking a US Airways trip found using ITA?
Let me start this out by saying that I usually use ITA to try to find the best routing for the price when I fly United. Then, I can usually (99% of the time) do a multi-city booking using united.com and find the exact same price (or less) and routing that I've found using ITA. This avoids booking fees.
So, I am trying to do the same thing using an itinerary consisting of all US Airways flights, and I'm having trouble booking it!
This is the itinerary I am trying to book:
When I try the multi-city booking on usairways.com, it books everything as individual segments rather than connections, thus it books into a higher V fare, with a total of $1550!
I've tried orbitz.com and it gives the same thing.
The closest I've found is priceline.com, I'm getting the $383.54 price with the overnight connections, but not with the exact same flight numbers listed above from ITA.
Any advice would be appreciated? I suspect that I could just try to do this the old-fashioned way and visit a Travel Agent, but I want to try to avoid booking fees.
So, I am trying to do the same thing using an itinerary consisting of all US Airways flights, and I'm having trouble booking it!
This is the itinerary I am trying to book:
Code:
29 Jan, US0959, BOS-CLT <connecting to> 30 Jan, US1773 CLT-SJO 02 Feb, US1774 SJO-CLT <connecting to> 03 Feb US1800 CLT-BOS Fare, BOS-SJO: EA28NK $149 Fare, SJO-BOS: EA28NK $149 Total (with taxes and fees): $383.54
I've tried orbitz.com and it gives the same thing.
The closest I've found is priceline.com, I'm getting the $383.54 price with the overnight connections, but not with the exact same flight numbers listed above from ITA.
Any advice would be appreciated? I suspect that I could just try to do this the old-fashioned way and visit a Travel Agent, but I want to try to avoid booking fees.
Last edited by warreng24; Sep 8, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Sep 8, 2008, 11:57 pm
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Let's see if the readers of our US forum can help here. Ocn Vw 1K, Moderator, TravelBuzz.
Sep 9, 2008, 12:25 am
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Possibly ITA hasn't caught up with the schedule changes - the US schedule doesn't show either of the CLT-SJU-CLT flights you've listed.
Jim
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Sep 9, 2008, 4:55 am
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I've booked some pretty wild US itins on Expedia... (Not possible on the US site either)
Have you tried there?
Have you tried there?
Sep 9, 2008, 5:08 am
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I was able to reproduce the exact itinerary on Orbitz by doing a multi-city search, then choosing the specific flights one at a time (the CLT-SJO-CLT ones first) using the "Choose flight X" option to the right of the flights in the solution display.
Total price (including Orbitz booking fee) was $388.01.
Total price (including Orbitz booking fee) was $388.01.
Sep 9, 2008, 6:18 am
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I'll second the piece-mealing on US's website doesn't work. Try priceline and/or Orbitz.
JP
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