Help!Best Place to get air tickets to Spain???

[itrainu]

Recommendations needed for airfare to Spain the end of May...Anyone using a consolidator, or recommend a website for overseas airfare...

 

[Carolinian]

Sometimes you can find good fares at www.skyauction.com , but watch the add-ons!

Consolidators do not seem to be coming through this year like in years past.

You should watch the Milage Run board at www.flyertalk.com

If you find a good fare to the UK or Ireland, you can usually get a very cheap flight from there to Spain with an LCC like www.easyjet.com or www.ryanair.com

Sometimes, combining www.icelandair.com , which often has good fares, with one of the European LCC's produces an excellent fare, but you do not get useful air miles.

 

[hibbeln]

Try the foreign carriers, especially AirFrance and Iberia and British Air and keep checking back and checking back and checking back....day after day after day.
You can often get a cheaper flight into England on BritishAirways or Virgin and then pick up a cheap inter-Europe fare into Spain, but they will often leave out of a different airport. That may matter to you or might not.
Go to www.orbitz.com and put in a fare watch. They cover many foreign carriers and can be helpful to show you when they are dropping prices.

This winter for February (low season, but over President's week so it was a bit higher again) we never got lower than around $600 for a flight from Detroit to Malaga. So I don't think you'll find any bargains. Flights all over Europe were high for that week. So if your week has a higher demand, I would grab anything under $700 without hesitation. In 2005 the flights were about $300 cheaper!

 

[hibbeln]

Oooooh, I just looked and you're from Texas. Yep, that probably will be an expensive ticket. Maybe look for tickets to Europe originating in Atlanta, and then see if you can link that with a cheap ticket from Texas to Atlanta?????

 

[michelle]

It might be worth your while to look into cheap options to London, then using one of the smaller companies, like Easyjet (www.easyjet.com) to fly to Spain.

However, you would have to book each trip seperately, plus the smaller companies wont show up in the travel search engines, so you would have to go to each one's website and buy from there. Also, keep in mind that you might have to travel from Heathrow to Gatwick (pretty easy, there are busses running between the two)

I havent checked it out, but I belive this site, http://www.flybudget.com/ can also help with getting the prices of the smaller airlines.