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We'll generally set up daily price notifications out of Kayak.
Flights are generally cheaper flying out of hubs so what we've done for some trips is to work an itinerary to end at hub city or wherever we can get a seat sale and fly to/back from there. We've used train travel and low cost carriers for these hops. (ie Seat sale to Venice, Train to Rome, Cruise return out of Rome, Flight on Vueling to Barcelona, Seat sale back from Barcelona)
We haven't used RyanAir but have used Vueling, Easyjet, and Flybe with fairly good success. Agree that you kind of have to be on the ball with some of their nuances. Another risk to be aware of is delays and cancellations. I'm not sure if I would schedule on the same day a connection between a transatlantic flight on one ticket with an intra-European flight on another ticket.
+1 to using the cruiseline's flight services. We've never used them ourselves but after multiple recommendations and researching them, we would consider them as an option in the future. The main challenges though are that they seem fairly inflexible with changes and many of the cheap fares require connections (though you can choose flight preferences).
One of my finance magazines (Moneysense March 2015 edition) quoted CheapAir.com whose stats indicate that on average, the cheapest time to book a flight to Europe is 276d out (not sure if this info is only valid for Canada or US too).
Flights are generally cheaper flying out of hubs so what we've done for some trips is to work an itinerary to end at hub city or wherever we can get a seat sale and fly to/back from there. We've used train travel and low cost carriers for these hops. (ie Seat sale to Venice, Train to Rome, Cruise return out of Rome, Flight on Vueling to Barcelona, Seat sale back from Barcelona)
We haven't used RyanAir but have used Vueling, Easyjet, and Flybe with fairly good success. Agree that you kind of have to be on the ball with some of their nuances. Another risk to be aware of is delays and cancellations. I'm not sure if I would schedule on the same day a connection between a transatlantic flight on one ticket with an intra-European flight on another ticket.
+1 to using the cruiseline's flight services. We've never used them ourselves but after multiple recommendations and researching them, we would consider them as an option in the future. The main challenges though are that they seem fairly inflexible with changes and many of the cheap fares require connections (though you can choose flight preferences).
One of my finance magazines (Moneysense March 2015 edition) quoted CheapAir.com whose stats indicate that on average, the cheapest time to book a flight to Europe is 276d out (not sure if this info is only valid for Canada or US too).
