Airfare/flights in February

[Gdog]

Im unable to find anything reasonable from Seattle to Bonaire for Feb 2016. Unless Im willing to make it a 2 day trip each way, the best I can find is $1200. Where are the $800-900 flights? Any input on a better time to travel, im looking for either the 13-20 or 20-27 of Feb.

 

[tursiops]

Im unable to find anything reasonable from Seattle to Bonaire for Feb 2016. Unless Im willing to make it a 2 day trip each way, the best I can find is $1200. Where are the $800-900 flights? Any input on a better time to travel, im looking for either the 13-20 or 20-27 of Feb.

?? The first flight I see is a red eye on Delta, $879.

 

[Gdog]

?? The first flight I see is a red eye on Delta, $879.

Yes and it is a 2 day trip. Im finding them for 800 but the layovers are in days. Maybe my post should have read, is there a better choice on days and length of trip for better pricing/length of trip

 

[tursiops]

No. You can have an overnight, or an expensive flight.
You've got 4 time zones to go through, maybe 9-12h of flying, plus at least 1 layover (2 if you want to save money). That sounds like 14-16h plus to me. How do you plan to do that in one day? the United flight from SEA to BON (0545-1951h) with one stop in IAH is the best you are going to do on timing, and it is $1126.
Good luck.

 

[Gdog]

Exactly. However that flight is usually around 900. Which is why I asked the question if anyone knew a better time or flight setup. Thank you for your help.

 

[bjd001]

You might have waited too long to make your reservations. In September, I paid just under $700 for flights from San Francisco to Bonaire (via Houston) in April 2016. Now those same flights are over $1400. And when we made our reservations, some flights we'd seen a month before were no longer available. There are only a few flights with a reasonable layover time (say, less than 3 hours) and then they get ridiculous after that. (Who wants to spend 9 or 15 house at the Houston airport?!?!?)

 

[diversteve]

I didn't see anything good under $1100 either. There's a couple alternate scenarios you could try also.

Seattle to Curacao then Insel Air over/back. There's about 7 local Insel flights during the day. Including a pretty late one. Somewhere you have to pickup an American flight since I don't believe United flies into Curacao.

Downside is the early Curacao to MIA American Air flight used to leave at 7:30AM and you can't get there from Bonaire in time so you have to overnite on Curacao. Plus I can't think of any affordable options to stay nearby and it's high season. Cabs are also expensive from the airport to town - figure $40 each way.

Seattle to Aruba then Insel over. I know nothing about this.

Seattle to Charlotte then Insel Air to Bonaire. Probably wind up costing about the same. Insel flies non-stop to Curacao then continues to Bonaire on Sat.

Seattle to Miami then Insel to Bonaire. The flight leaves at 3PM though and with all the time zone changes I doubt it's possible. It's also $640 so unless you get a real good deal to MIA probably costs equal to or more than what you're finding.

Insel doesn't have the best on-time record either.

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