Is that $3000 per person, or for the 4 of you together?

Group travel can sometimes be 10% off (or 9 paid get one free, or 10 paid 1 free—depends on the airlines’ group sales dept and policies).

For humanitarian travel, check www.raptim.org but I’ve never seen anything cheaper there than what I found otherwise (using my bag o’ tricks!).

Thanks Don Ill give that a try, and yes sadly 3000usd is perperson, but hay we get to spend almost 2 whole days in the air. Wha Who

I don’t know enough about them to know if they are applicable, but when you get to that price level, I’d start looking into round the world tickets. At least you could get something more out of this, perhaps, than just that one trip.

I also see that if you fly from NYC, you can get this down to less than $2250. For that price difference you could book separately from SEA-NYC, but you’d have to be really, really sure to arrive in NYC in time, because you would not want to be paying walkup fares for this.