When I was looking for flights from Tucson to Japan I did the normal search engines, www.Kayak.com, www.travelocity.com, www.orbitz.com, www.expedia.com and so on. So most of the flights were around $1800 round trip. This cost was high to me. I started thinking what about from larger cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix.
I was able to find flights out of LAX were only $800-1100 depending on the flight and airline.
At the same time I searched for flights from Tucson to LAX. Round trip flight was only $180. Now one more dilemma a hotel for LAX for the 2 legs of my trip. A quick search on www.hotels.com showed that it would be possible. Hotel room for $62 with free airport transportation and bam booked.
Another good thing about flying out of LAX is the number of flights and airlines. This makes such a big difference, with the number of options you now have, flight times, plane selection. I also used www.seatguru.com to help me select the best seats available.
Cost of getting to Japan and back:
Flight to LAX and back: $180
Flight to and back Japan: $910
Hotel: $124
Total: $1214 instead of $1800
Savings $586
So if the option is available to you be sure to look at costs of flying to a larger city staying there a night then taking a flight out of the big city. Sometime you can save a lot of money.
TG
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