2013
12
February
Calgary to Barcelona, Venice, Prague | $853 roundtrip after taxes
12
February
Thanks to the contest on KLM, the cities of Barcelona, Prague, and Venice are now on sale from Calgary for around $853 roundtrip after taxes.
Barcelona was clearly the first choice for the public, but both Prague and Venice were selected for the discount as well, since the final tallies for these 2 cities were so close.
Even though KLM Canada hasn't officially announced it yet, the fares have already been loaded into the major search engines, and can also be found on KLM's website. Competing airlines have also lowered their fares to match.
Air Canada
The available dates that have cheap prices vary by airline, but in general, the dates that look to have dropped are mostly concentrated between now and mid May, and dates between October 16 and December 10.
Here are some example searches on Kayak to get you started, but try your own dates. (Note that Kayak may not quite have all the latest prices loaded yet, as this fare drop literally just happened. You should try your dates on the airline's own website as well).
Barcelona, Spain (BCN): Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Oct - Nov
Venice, Italy (VCE): Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Oct - Nov
Prague, Czech Republic (PRG): Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Oct - Nov
Also don't forget that certain airlines offer free stopovers in their main hub city for however many days you want...
KLM - Free stopovers in Amsterdam
Air France - Free stopovers in Paris
To get a free stopover it's usually easiest to book through the airline's own website, and search for a multi-city flight.
To get a free stopover in Amsterdam on KLM for example, here is what you would do:
1. Go to the KLM page for multi-city booking, found here:
http://www.klm.com/travel/ca_en/apps/ebt/ebt_home.htm?goToPage=home_multiple
2. Enter the following:
Calgary to Amsterdam - departing April 7 (or whatever date you want)
Amsterdam to Prague - departing April 10 (or whatever date you want)
Prague to Calgary - departing April 14 (or whatever date you want)
3. Hit Search. The price should be similar to the regular round-trip fare (perhaps a few dollars more in some cases).
4. Go through the booking process
You can do the same thing on Air France's site, but using Paris as your stopover city instead of Amsterdam.
Even though this sale is only being offered on off-season dates, it's still a very good price relative to what fares normally go for, especially to Prague which is usually a minimum of $1300 from Calgary. It's virtually unheard of to see good prices to Eastern Europe from Western Canada.
I believe the low fares will be available for the next 48 hours.
UPDATE: Prague can actually be had for as cheap as $745 roundtrip after taxes using a combination of KLM and Czech Airlines. Try searching on SkyScanner to find them. Here's an example:
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Would it be possible to double up on free stopovers using the codeshares?
Say..
Calgary to Barcelona on Air France, with stopover in Paris
Barcelona to Calgary on KLM, with stopover in Amsterdam
I think what you would have to do is something like this:
http://www.kayak.com/flights/YYC-AMS/2013-04-10/AMS-BCN/2013-04-14/CDG-YYC/2013-04-18
Calgary to Amsterdam to Barcelona
Paris to Calgary
Total: $882 after all taxes and fees
And then just buy a cheap one way flight from Barcelona to Paris for like $60 after taxes on EasyJet.
Flight to all four cities for under $950 !
I cannot get the free stopover to work. Thoughts?
First I would try your dates just as a regular roundtrip. It's possible that the dates you're trying don't have cheap fares in general.
Did you try a multi city trip on Kayak? Try adjusting the dates a bit, and perhaps the order of the cities.
If all else fails, you could always call the airline and they'll help you book it.
I was looking into this deal...hoping to book Barcelona from may 10-20. I actually saw the prices (would've been $873 for the routes I picked)...and then it just disappeared! What happened?! Now I can't find the deal, and the prices are back up to $1600. Air Canada, Air France, And Lufthansa don't seem to have the deal up and running on their systems for any date in may. Is this deal active right now???
Just now
Just booked Venice April 27-May 13. Going to do Italy, a little bit of Croatia and some southern France! So EXCITED!!!
Sounds like an awesome trip!
Thanks Chris!
Booked a 17 day trip to Barcelona with a 2 day stopover in Paris through the KLM site. Cost for two adults and an infant for YYC to Paris, Paris to BCN, BCN to YYC, was less than $1900.
Awesome!! Booked Venice in October for $873 through link then through Air Canada! Seriously pumped!!!
Going to Prague in the fall! I unintentionally found a round-trip flight there for $100 less than the advertised $850. Crazy! Was on the fence before, but jumped at the chance once I saw that on ITA!
Nice find! Can see it for $745 roundtrip after taxes. Looks like it's using a combination of KLM and Czech Airlines. Have updated the bottom of the blog post.
Booked a family of 4 for $3500. Paris for 4 days including New Years eve then Barcelona for 5 days. Now I need hotels...
Thanks Chris and KLM heading to venice via Amsterdam on x-mas. Plan to stay in AMS for 3 days with a new year stop in Paris. Head to our final destination in the new year with plans to tour a few cities in Italy with the money we saved. Our trip came out to 927each.
I took a look at all these flights today, and it looks like they've all gone back up. Do you think the good discounts are sold out, or should I check back next week?
KLM said the sale ended at 1159 ET February 14.
We booked our family of four from Calgary to Barcelona for $3500 and my parents from Vancouver to Barcelona for even less! :)