Multi Flight Bookings

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jimmyVX

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687 posts

207 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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I often travel to the US on business and am usually trying to cram as many customers in to a single week. Rarely flying in and out of the same airport with various internal flights in between. We typically use a local travel agent but have had some issues recently with bookings so looking elsewhere. Can someone recommend a company or website who can help with this?

chris7676

2,685 posts

220 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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Sadly most travel agents are useless.

Now, you can use search engines such as Kayak or Expedia (which will be as good as the mindless travel agents) BUT be aware of the limitations being able to give you only good deals for single tickets, not when you would need more than 1 ticket even though the engines will find it (go figure!)

You may simply want to do separate searches for different flight 'types' - for instance UK to US and then within US.
(That's what I had to do last time to pay £860 rather than £2000 and had to instruct the agent to check these options...)

I'm happy to be corrected.


pushthebutton

1,097 posts

182 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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My sister just used Trailfinders for a multi-stop tour of the US and they came with a better price than the airlines' own websites and the 'scanner' sites.

I bet that's the company that has pissed you off?!

Old Merc

3,490 posts

167 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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You will not have problems using Trailfinders.I`ve used them a number of times everything went like clockwork.

recordman

386 posts

125 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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+1 for Trailfinders, excellent service for multi sector flights.

69 coupe

2,433 posts

211 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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Sound like you need the help of Corporate travel services, especially with open jaws, hotels and more. Below are two that do just that, there are many others.
http://www.carlsonwagonlit.co.uk/en/countries/uk/
http://www.hrgworldwide.com/en-gb/Pages/default.as...

bazza1603

173 posts

151 months

Sunday 26th October 2014
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Hi,

Drop me your request by PM and I will get one of our team to quote you for the trip. I work for a company called Horncastle Travel who specialise in Corporate and marine travel.

Best Regards

Barry





Sheepshanks

32,723 posts

119 months

Sunday 26th October 2014
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I've worked for two multi-nationals and was never happy with the flights the corporate travel agent offered. They'd have us with overnight lay-overs at airports when there was often a different route that would avoid that.

I don't do many trips these days but last time used http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ to pick the combination of flights I wanted. Only snag is it threw up so many options it was hard to pick out the best one.