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Mon, 08/16/2010 - 20:47
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I am planning a 10 day trip in mid march of 2011 and was hoping for some feedback on airfare. I was wondering if 950 from dtw>nce>bcn>lis>dtw is a great price or if there is a possibility of seeing it lower. I have seen it vary from 950-1000 over the last month. Also any feed back would be appreciated.
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Mon, 08/16/2010 - 21:52
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For March, I think it’s possible to go lower. Have you already checked consolidators and the multi-city flight searches recommended in our new user thread (@top of this forum)?

I’d check DTW-NCE / LIS-DTW with Cfares and Kayak, et.al. Then Skyscanner.net for NCE-BCN and BCN-LIS flight hops.

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I have used fare compare and ITA and nothing under 843 comes up.Last March I saw under 600 for rt to Barcelona so 850 seems high considering it makes no difference where I start or finish my journey, and my dates are flexible. I used kayak to find the 950-1000. Considering march is six months away does it seem logical to hold out for 850-900?

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Yes, because March is low-season. I think the best you might expect for open-jaw, without the 2 intra-Europe flight hops, is maybe $650. Definitely sign up for fare alerts on DTW-your 3 cities since you’re flexible. I haven’t noticed sales for 2011 yet, but a good fare could pop up, unadvertised, at any time, so let the fare alerts do that work for you. Farecompare and Airfarewatchdog have good alert systems.

I should add Fly.com to the multi-city flight search recommendation.