Los Angeles to Venice Flights

[cp73]

Helping my daughter book her flights from Los Angeles to Venice and back home from Athens for her honeymoon during the late summer. Flights from LA are running about $1500 pp with a return from Athens. This was on AA and was booking as a multi leg flight. It also seemed to be about the lowest costs available with the exception of a couple of long layover flights on a some different airlines using search engines. We also noticed however if she booked a separate non stop RT ticket to Paris, then purchased a ticket to Venice (from Paris) and a return from Athens back to Paris on a different airlines the price of the ticket drops down to under $900 each.

Any disadvantage to booking this way other than the issue of missing flights and flight cancellations? Interesting how none of the search flight engines would show this kind of pricing as a multi stop flight. However, if you inquired as totally separate flights landing in a major European city (just not italy) first, then booking a second flight on to Venice lots of lower pricing was available.

 

[Ken555]

A few considerations:

1. I think it’s too early to purchase economy flights to Europe for this summer. Any specials which may occur will likely be advertised starting in March or April.

2. Venice doesn’t have a large airport. Look at alternatives, such as Milan or Rome. I’m flying to Florence twice this year and when I go there it’s always fun to find the best route and price since they also have a small airport (think of an airport smaller than Burbank, for comparison).

3. Norwegian offers a nonstop flight LA to Rome, which is very inexpensive on many days. If your schedule is somewhat flexible, I would suggest looking into that. Then, simply take a train to Venice.

4. Norwegian also offers nonstop to Barcelona, and you can take a cheap flight from there to Milan, Venice, Florence, etc. Similarly, you should look at other major European airports on other airlines. There are many options, as you noted for Paris.


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[am1]

$900 is all the flights each? Does she want to visit Paris for a few days? It may work but more effort? How much more are the business class seats?

 

[SmithOp]

Isn't there an issue with luggage when changing airlines, would they have to collect luggage from airline 1 then check back in airline 2, having to go through customs and security? Make sure its a long layover.

 

[Talent312]

Once, we flew to Frankfurt (wine festival), flew from there to Santorini, ferried to Mykonos, flew to Athens, flew back to Frankfurt, and from there home. All flights were 1-way and booked separately, except the R/T to+from Frankfurt

The trick is to pick a landing spot in Europe and then wing (or train) it from there.

An AA flight to Madrid was delayed two hours. We barely made the connection (trotting thru the airport) to Toulouse, France. However, our bags (even though checked thru) did not catch up to us until the next afternoon. So, I'd recommend a minimum four-hour layover. Better yet, spend the night where you land first.
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[isisdave]

Venice's main airport is Marco Polo, but there's also Treviso, so keep an eye on that for intra-Europe flights.
It IS a little early for flights more than 6 months out. Put a watch on a couple of likely routes with Kayak, and subscribe to Scott's Cheap Flights.

If you try to break this into a trans-Atlantic part and an intra-Europe flight, you're going to have to get your bags and do immigration in the first European landing. Then the intra-Europe carriers have smaller baggage allotments, and of course there's the connection time problem.

 

[Ken555]

Once, we flew to Frankfurt (wine festival), flew from there to Santorini, ferried to Mykonos, flew to Athens, flew back to Frankfurt, and from there home. All flights were 1-way and booked separately, except the R/T to+from Frankfurt

The trick is to pick a landing spot in Europe and then wing (or train) it from there.

An AA flight to Madrid was delayed two hours. We barely made the connection (trotting thru the airport) to Toulouse, France. However, our bags (even though checked thru) did not catch up to us until the next afternoon. So, I'd recommend a minimum four-hour layover. Better yet, spend the night where you land first.
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This is how I routinely fly to Europe (with a few notable exceptions). I would never schedule a flight on the same day with a different airline, and would always spend the night close to the arriving airport...but then I’m toast after a flight from LA. In fact, lately I’ve been going to Chicago or New England and spending the night then continuing to Europe for all economy seat flights (I did just buy a Lufthansa business class ticket for Istanbul to LA via Frankfurt, with an overnight in Frankfurt, for ~$1100...hard to find these rates but when you can get them, they’re great).


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[cp73]

Thank you all for your suggestions... I will check them out.

 

[HudsHut]

Another alternative:
The high speed train from Rome will get to Venice in 4 hours. Very comfortable and extremely cheap when purchased in advance.