hey ya’ll. been thinking about coming back to taiwan. took a gander at the airfare. my goodness. 2690 US roundtrip from the midwest. that is about 1500 more than right. anybody got a better alternative? i could hitch hike up through canada to alaska take a ferry across to russia, then…
what airline was that? sounds high.
american and all of em. the cheapest is 1000 USD but has a thirty day stay limit.
Prices are likely to only be going higher as well due to the current oil prices. Crude just hit a 14 year high, this will filter through to airfares, has already hit air cargo.
Those figures are higher than what I’m seeing:
travel.yahoo.com/
Also, try checking airfares from other cities in the area.
well…fiddlesticks! korea, japan,china…with airfare reimbursements are starting to look even better.
You’re just not looking in the right place. Try expedia.com – a one-way fare was $640. Roundtrip was around $800, IIRC. This was directly through EVA (747 from the West Coast, plus a feeder flight to get there first), not a consolidator or some “we’ll let you know six hours before you board, and you have nineteen stopovers” outfit or (shudder) CAL.
Also, try a travel agent. They sometimes know about special deals, or hear advance rumors of sales.
You might be a little worse off if you’re traveling on/after Labor Day. Summer vacation travel season and all that. Then again, it might be too late to get a good fare before then, since they usually bump things up if there’s less than three weeks leadtime.
Good luck!
Adding:
Wow, looks like prices have shot up in the last week or two. (#&$(&#.
If you can get to LAX cheaply (heck, take Southwest), EVA’s one-way price to TPE on June 1st is (as of 30 seconds ago) $528 plus a few bucks in fees. Roundtrip returning 9/30 is $764. SFO and SEA are probably similarly cheap if you fiddle with the dates a bit (June 1st was quite a bit more expensive for those two airports).
[quote=“cranky laowai”]Those figures are higher than what I’m seeing:
travel.yahoo.com/[/quote]
Last time I tried it, Yahoo Travel first showed what fare classes existed, but you actually had to go all the way through selecting dates and flights before it would tell you whether any seats really existed. I wasted a good five or six hours before giving up, and never once found a real bookable seat behind a cheap fare class.