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I know this isn't related to ER but so many of you seem to travel a lot I thought I'd ask here.
So I may need to fly to Europe at short notice as early as next week.
I don't want to mention specifically the cities or airlines involved as I don't want this thread to turn into a competition to find the cheapest flights.
Round trip flight costs about $3500 on the airline I want to use on the specific route I want. I can shave about $1000 to $1500 off that by flying different routes and different airlines but they end up turning the trip into a 22hr+ marathon.
However, if I book a round trip flight to New York it's $370 and then a round trip from New York to Europe it's about $1800 using the same airline and only $1000 round trip to Europe using a different airline albeit with an extra connection that adds about 6 hours to the trip.
I would have to pay for a hotel in NY near the airport both outbound and inbound.
This seems too good to be true to me and makes me wonder if airlines would have rules preventing this but I don't see how they could tell if I use different airlines. I know they don't like 'hidden city' flights but this seems different.
I'm trying to find out if anyone has tried this before and run into problems.
So I may need to fly to Europe at short notice as early as next week.
I don't want to mention specifically the cities or airlines involved as I don't want this thread to turn into a competition to find the cheapest flights.
Round trip flight costs about $3500 on the airline I want to use on the specific route I want. I can shave about $1000 to $1500 off that by flying different routes and different airlines but they end up turning the trip into a 22hr+ marathon.
However, if I book a round trip flight to New York it's $370 and then a round trip from New York to Europe it's about $1800 using the same airline and only $1000 round trip to Europe using a different airline albeit with an extra connection that adds about 6 hours to the trip.
I would have to pay for a hotel in NY near the airport both outbound and inbound.
This seems too good to be true to me and makes me wonder if airlines would have rules preventing this but I don't see how they could tell if I use different airlines. I know they don't like 'hidden city' flights but this seems different.
I'm trying to find out if anyone has tried this before and run into problems.