Cheap international flights (going to Ireland) (Now just Tekki's honeymoon adventure topic)

**Tekki** · 2013-04-13 18:29

I'm sure someone has made a thread about this kind of topic before, but I want a fresh set of ideas.

I'm trying to find the cheapest tickets to Ireland from Chicago between June 15th to June 20th. What's the best way to find cheap tickets?

Call airline directly? Scratch around all those .com travel sites?

The cheapest I've seen are right around 1000 a person but would feel better about spending 700 to 800 per person

**archibaldcrane** · 2013-04-13 18:43

Scratch around travel sites. I prefer kayak.com.

**archibaldcrane** · 2013-04-13 18:45

If you can fly June 12th, you can go from Chicago to Dublin for $612 nonstop.

**archibaldcrane** · 2013-04-13 18:45

Are you flying one-way or round trip? If R/T, when do you want to return?

**Tekki** · 2013-04-13 19:02

R t, honeymooning

Coming back 20

**Tekki** · 2013-04-13 19:02

Seems like the best r/t is 980ish pp

**archibaldcrane** · 2013-04-13 19:04

Trans-atlantic flight but you'll only be gone 4 nights? You won't even be over your jetlag by the time you leave.

**archibaldcrane** · 2013-04-13 19:04

Could always try to name your own price for like $700 - make your honeymoon an unpredictable adventure.

**Tekki** · 2013-04-14 02:06

Hows that work. Put in bid, hope it gets a bite? Does it charge ONLY if an airline bites? And can I cancel at any time if I find something cheap in the mean time?

**archibaldcrane** · 2013-04-14 02:35

Originally Posted by Tekki

Hows that work. Put in bid, hope it gets a bite? Does it charge ONLY if an airline bites? And can I cancel at any time if I find something cheap in the mean time?

You get an immediate reply to your bid, but you don't get to control flight times / layovers / etc - just flight dates. If they accept, you're booked and charged. If not, not.

**Kerberoz** · 2013-04-14 04:14

Clear your cookies every time you check ticket prices.

**Kalmado** · 2013-04-14 09:35

My wife is from the Philippines and we eventually will take a vacation there for a few weeks. We check ticket prices occasionally and after seeing this thread I checked prices. The last time we checked prices was a few months ago and a round trip ticket for each adult was about $900. This was checking all times of the year. Now, the cheapest we can find is $1375! I've seen some as high as $2600 as well. I've only flown a few times so it's crazy to me the cost of flying.

**Viq** · 2013-04-14 10:01

Originally Posted by Tekki

askin stuff

Do you have a credit card that accrues some type of rewards points? If so, check with out that card company's rewards page to either check directly how much the points can save you, or to see about moving the points to a frequent flyer account on a specific airline. I paid $300 for my last flight to Korea because of the points I had built up on my Chase card.

**Headspace** · 2013-04-14 10:03

Originally Posted by Kalmado

My wife is from the Philippines and we eventually will take a vacation there for a few weeks. We check ticket prices occasionally and after seeing this thread I checked prices. The last time we checked prices was a few months ago and a round trip ticket for each adult was about $900. This was checking all times of the year. Now, the cheapest we can find is $1375! I've seen some as high as $2600 as well. I've only flown a few times so it's crazy to me the cost of flying.

It's cheaper to just drive bro

**Tekki** · 2013-04-14 13:04

Originally Posted by Viq

Do you have a credit card that accrues some type of rewards points? If so, check with out that card company's rewards page to either check directly how much the points can save you, or to see about moving the points to a frequent flyer account on a specific airline. I paid $300 for my last flight to Korea because of the points I had built up on my Chase card.

Tried, no bueno

Also, anyone been to Ireland? Anything "Zomg have to see"?

**Cliron** · 2013-04-15 10:56

I'm Irish, so I'm partial to both.

At work now so cant go into as much detail as I want, but give me some background info on you and I'll mull it over and reply later today. So it'll just be you and your wife for how long (days/ nights).

Are ye planning on driving? Why Ireland in the first place? Whats ye're budget like? Are ye partial to drinking/ nights out? Are ye more nature-prone (e.g. mountains, hiking, camping etc)? Would ye prefer history based sights and recommendations or natural-geography based ones (e.g. a labour factory during the Irish Famine depicting horrible conditions etc, rather than say, the Cliffs of Moher, the steepest cliffface in western europe (I think)?

Give me that information and I could hook you up with an amazing time.

**Cliron** · 2013-04-15 10:58

Btw in regards to jetlag, I think its a personal thing but I think the Jet leg going Ireland-to-America is alot worse than Us-Ireland.

When going Us-Ireland, I just sleep in and correct myself after a day, whereas going Ireland-US I cant shake the waking up at 5am thing.

**Kerberoz** · 2013-04-15 20:11

Just fuck up your circadian rhythm by staying up to random hours and randomly napping during the day for a few weeks beforehand, and you'll be immune to jet lag.

**Plow** · 2013-04-16 17:15

check out http://www.aerlingus.com/ good deals, good company, and their site is nice

as to what to look at in ireland... lol all I can think of is take a ferry over to St. Andrews

**Osede** · 2013-04-16 21:18

anyway on the topic, the flight price varies depending on the season. It is always kind of expensive during christmas~new year, and during the early summer (when graduation), and around august (when oversea student coming back to states).

So, it is best to avoid these period if you want to travel and plan to get some cheaper flight ticket

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