Inside Scoop: Travel Agents
By TERRY WARD
"Rem Malloy, president of Seattle-based Italy 4 Real -- a tour agency offering escorted tours in Italy -- books his flights to Europe by piecing together airfares from different carriers. It can lead to substantial savings, he says. “I call it the hopper flight scenario,” says Malloy, who travels to Europe several times a year and usually uses Orbitz to book the transatlantic portion.
“Say you want to go from Seattle to Rome, round trip. Choose an airport on the edge of the European continent closest to the US to fly into,” says Malloy, referring to airports such as London, Amsterdam, Dublin and Paris. “What you do is get a roundtrip flight from your US departure point to one of those cities, and then you use a European low cost hopper flight -- airlines like Easy Jet or Ryan Air -- to hop to Rome or wherever your final destination is.”
Malloy says this method has saved him as much as $500 on an entire round trip over using Orbitz for the entire ticket. “And the money you save can go a long way in compensating for the bad exchange rate,” he says."
"Rem Malloy, president of Seattle-based Italy 4 Real -- a tour agency offering escorted tours in Italy -- books his flights to Europe by piecing together airfares from different carriers. It can lead to substantial savings, he says. “I call it the hopper flight scenario,” says Malloy, who travels to Europe several times a year and usually uses Orbitz to book the transatlantic portion.
“Say you want to go from Seattle to Rome, round trip. Choose an airport on the edge of the European continent closest to the US to fly into,” says Malloy, referring to airports such as London, Amsterdam, Dublin and Paris. “What you do is get a roundtrip flight from your US departure point to one of those cities, and then you use a European low cost hopper flight -- airlines like Easy Jet or Ryan Air -- to hop to Rome or wherever your final destination is.”
Malloy says this method has saved him as much as $500 on an entire round trip over using Orbitz for the entire ticket. “And the money you save can go a long way in compensating for the bad exchange rate,” he says."
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