re: Booking Flight Segments Separately

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Any advice on how we should tackle this (e.g. all one-way segments) and when to look to book would be greatly appreciated

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First question: Are there any closer airports to your house than IAH? Not sure which direction you're coming from. If you get off work at 3, you might be able to make it to a closer airport and catch a 5:30 or 6pm flight.

Second question/thought:I'm wondering if you should book this as a multicity IAH-FCO and SPU-IAH. If you book multicity tickets, most of the us airlines throw out the one-way prices. After browsing though, it looks like your best best is actually two one-ways to/from the US. I'll post what I found below

June 23- one way
Leaving out of IAH after 20:00 is tough. Looks like there's a turkish flight, a british airways flight through LHR, and an 8:15pm flight also through london.
$1036 for a one-way on turkish
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July 8
One way SPU-IAH is $1149
Double connection in Copenhagen or Stockholm then Chicago or Newark (on SAS/United).
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This to/from europe will be around $2185 if you booked today.

June 23- July 8 multicity
$2507 on british airways
Depart IAH at 8:25pm, 2 1/2 hr connection in london, arrive in Rome at 5:50pm

Returning July 8 at 7:45am or 11:50am
Multicity


For your FCO-CTA flights, it's $49-$65 for a one-way

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CTA-SPU is pretty pricey and there's no nonstops. Best I can get is $119 on June 28th
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Grand total would be $2369 for everything for one person so just double and it's $4738. I'm not sure if this is a good deal or not out of IAH since I'm not sure of the average prices to europe out of IAH. Hope this helped