OT - Cheap Flights to Michigan?
Hello all,
I'm supposed to be standing in the wedding for one of my good buddies at his wedding in mid-August and have been scouring different sites for some cheap flights out to Detroit. Right now, i've used priceline and the cheapeast roundtrip from El Paso, TX to DTW is still about $475. Anyone have any good tips on how I could possibly find a cheaper flight? Thanks for any advice!
Fly Southwest from El Paso to Chicago Midway, take the CTA Orange Line downtown, walk to Union Station, and board the Amtrak "Wolverine" for Detroit. Or, if you want to get there on time, take Megabus to Ann Arbor / Detroit.
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$475 seems like a decent price for that flight. You might want to lock it down.
Just graduated from Michigan with no job prospects currently. At the time $475 is pretty steep for me
you have plenty of time to take the bus.
Have you tried flying into Lansing or Flint or Toledo? I doubt those will be cheaper, but it's worth a try.
I'd try it
Grand Rapids is usually a pretty expensive airport to fly into.
Well, i'm not the best man if that makes this less odd.... and the wedding is going to be in Detroit on Belle Isle
I'm in El Paso, it's never cheap to fly back to Michigan. If you get in early, Southwest Airlines might have some good non-refundable deals, but it always costs an arm and a leg because El Paso is a small airport and you always have to connect to get anywhere farther north than Nashville. My average round-trip flight is always around $400-500.
Yeah, i've lived here since 2nd grade and had to deal with plane tickets the past 4 years. Before august tickets went for 375, but i didn't have a timeline yet so i couldn't jump on the tickets.
kayak.com is what I normally use to try and find the best price. But yeah, that price you found seems typical.
Look up each part of the flight individually (so that it's two one-way searches instead of a roundtrip search). In the past, this would be much more expensive, but that's no longer the case.
Last week, I saw the flights drop 75 in one day, and jumped on it. An hour later, they were back high. Being only 2 weeks out, the flight's still fairly empty, so I imagine they might drop soon to try to fill seats.
So my recommendation is use kayak, if you can, be patient and persistent, and try to take one of your segments on a Tuesday or Wednesday. Good luck.
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i dont know if they fly out of el paso but maybe a small surrounding airport near you. they are dirt cheap so its worth taking a look.
I agree with Spirit. I'm from Atlanta, but I live in Lubbock right now for grad school. Often times it's worh the drive to Dallas (it's quick going through west tex anyways) for he cheap flight. Spirit is WAY cheap. I've seen tickets for 15 before if you catch them early.
Spirit is a rip off. They charge for carry-ons. You think you are getting a cheap flight, but add in all the extras and you are paying the same or more as you would for a Southwest flight, but getting sub-par service. And they don't even care that their service is always rated worst in the industry.
In conclusion, NEVER fly Spirit.
February 19th, 2014 at 4:00 PM ^
I've had okay experiences with Spirit. If you're traveling light, it's not a bad option.
I too am standing up in a wedding in Detroit, in belle isle, in August.
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www.travel.com it lets you compare all the airlines at once. Hope this helps
Just in case you didn't realize, Southwest flights do not show up in metasearches. You have to search on southwest.com. I'd advise checking there. They do fly to Detroit now.
January 14th, 2013 at 6:07 AM ^
Wow! That's good best of luck I hope you will get.
January 14th, 2013 at 9:46 AM ^
Google bought a flight search company a while back. There is an android app, but you can do a web search.
January 14th, 2013 at 10:37 AM ^
Buy your ticket on a Tuesday afternoon. I've had good success with that idea in the past.
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