Hi All,
I am tagging my husband business trip to States and Canada with my two years old toddler.
As we are paying myself and my toddler tickets to states and Canada.
I am wondering with travel experts here whats the best website to book?
and any feedback with Delta or United airline?
As we are going to a few different cities, we won't be able to afford with Qantas ….
Thank you in advance with any reply
Said everything I would say.
Search with matrix and skyscanner, book direct with airlines. All airlines have a multi city function (though some do hide it on their sites).
Noting matrix and skyscanner don't have all budget options, but certainly all decent carriers travelling to usa and Canada.
My husband and I have flown with Delta several times.
For our honeymoon in the USA, we booked directly through the Delta website and were able to pay in Australian Dollars.
We flew from Perth-Sydney-LA (Codeshare with Virgin)-Seattle (to Redmond, OR with Alaska as Delta didn't have flights when we needed them) Salt Lake-Vegas-LA then back home to Perth with a Virgin Codeshare again. This was over the month of October 2016.
For the both of us with 8 flights it came to just over $3000 ($1500 each). As it was all on the one itinerary, we didn't have to pay for baggage fees because we had connecting international flights. All American based airlines (from my understanding) make you pay for your baggage on top of the ticket price.
Can't help you with Canada, sorry!
I found Delta direct website is more expensive… does anyone know why ?
Some tips:
1) Search using the booking engines, then book direct with the airline as it will save you trouble later.
2) Make sure you book your itinerary as a single ticket where it makes sense to do so. This could save you an enormous sum of money, for example if you can get 80% of your flights on the one ticket with Qantas/oneworld and just the remaining flights where it is more convenient to fly a different airline you book separately. In other words, domestic flights are generally very cheap or even free when tacked onto an international itinerary.
3) My favorite flight engine these days for a multi city itinerary is matrix/google: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ . Zuji is also pretty good for multicity itineraries and so is skyscanner.
I wouldn't rule out qantas/oneworld once you take into account the internal flights when booking under a single ticket.