Lisbon to Toronto (passing through Heathrow) and back again, by British Airways, flying there on 24th June and leaving Canada on the 29th, is at 700 euros (already with taxes).
Should anyone have any suggestion regarding other airlines (neither TAP nor Portugalia fly to Toronto, apparently), I'm all ears.
What about...
Beatnik on 2005-04-28T15:20:37
Air France or
LuftHansa?
Re:What about...
cog on 2005-04-28T15:28:57
Air France: 849,37 EUR
LuftHansa: 738.13 EUR
:-\
And British Airways just got up to 751.41 EUR...
Oh boy... :-\
Re:What about...
Beatnik on 2005-04-28T18:13:21
Tried weekends? Often those flights are cheaper :)
Re:What about...
barbie on 2005-04-28T18:52:37
I'm flying Lufthansa via Frankfurt, which worked out the cheapest for me at just over £500 (about 739 EUR). However, having a friend who works for Lufthansa, who is hoping to bump me up to business class helped to sway me ;)
If you can get to any budget airline airports, you might save a bit. According to Who Flies Where there is a company called SATA that flies Lisbon to Toronto. And by the looks of their schedules they fly direct too!
Re:What about...
cog on 2005-04-29T09:59:34
The link you gave me will be handful, thanks :-)
OTOH, SATA, unfortunatelly, has a sad history of leaving passangers stranded in Azores, from time to time :-) Every company has the potential to have a plain malfunctioning, but I guess they just have bad luck and not that many spare plains O:-)
And whenever that happens, it hits the news, because people usually wait for a few days (or more).
Also, their site a little bit stupid... it shows me a big list of flights to Canada and another back to Portugal; I have to choose one of each and then hit a button and wait for the message (something like "No seats available for those flights"). Oh boy... talk about bad interfaces... :-\
nothing direct
jmm on 2005-04-28T15:30:52
I'm surprised - I expected that there would be direct flights between Toronto and Lisbon (but not Braga), but checking Air Canada's routes shows that they have no Portugal destinations. So, Portugal and Canada likely have no flight agreements (such agreements tend to be reciprocal and the Canadian side would be owned by Air Canada). The "closest" direct flights would be to Madrid, which doesn't help really (London is more on the way). Having a stop-over in New York might save a bit of time; going through London might give a (unlikely) chance to meet up with other EU attendees.
BA Flights for EUR 616
jesse on 2005-04-29T09:04:28
(My magic source is beta.itasoftware.com, a company that builds flight pricing engines in common lisp and has a public demo)
€615.99 in Euros
1 adult @ €615.99
This ticket is non-refundable.
Changes to this ticket will incur a penalty fee.
Airport legend:
LIS: Lisbon Lisboa
LHR: London Heathrow
YYZ: Toronto Lester B Pearson
Lisbon, Portugal to Toronto, Canada: 4517 miles 14 hrs 35 min
British Airways Flight BA499 on a Boeing 757 (jet) in coach class
(snack)
Departs Lisbon, Portugal (LIS) Fri, June 24 8:20a 2 hrs 40 min
Arrives London, United Kingdom (LHR) 11:00a
1 adult in booking code S, covered by fare (A1) below
Layover in London 4 hrs 10 min
British Airways Flight BA99 on a Boeing 777 (jet) in coach class
(meal)
Departs London, United Kingdom (LHR) Fri, June 24 3:10p 7 hrs 45 min
Arrives Toronto, Canada (YYZ) 5:55p
1 adult in booking code S, covered by fare (A1) below
Note: You must change terminals in London (LHR).
Toronto, Canada to Lisbon, Portugal: 4517 miles 11 hrs 15 min
British Airways Flight BA92 on a Boeing 747 (jet) in coach class
(meal)
Departs Toronto, Canada (YYZ) Wed, June 29 6:25p 6 hrs 55 min
Arrives London, United Kingdom (LHR) Thur, June 30 6:20a
1 adult in booking code S, covered by fare (A2) below
Layover in London 1 hr 45 min
British Airways Flight BA500 on a Boeing 757 (jet) in coach class
(meal)
Departs London, United Kingdom (LHR) Thur, June 30 8:05a 2 hrs 35 min
Arrives Lisbon, Portugal (LIS) 10:40a
1 adult in booking code S, covered by fare (A2) below
Note: The flight from Toronto (YYZ) to London (LHR) is overnight.
Note: You must change terminals in London (LHR).
Booking details
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http://www.britishairways.com/) or a travel agent. If you use a travel agent to buy this ticket:
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It is very important to use exactly the same booking codes and fare codes that we've used on this page in order to match the price we've found.
Fare (A1): BA LISYTO SLRCEUR fare NUC 306.85
Fare (A2): BA YTOLIS SLRCEUR fare NUC 306.85
Tax: Portugal Passenger Service Charge €8.68
Tax: Portugal Security Tax €4.70
Tax: Canadian Air Travelers Security Charge C$17.00
Tax: Canadian Goods and Services Tax C$1.05
Tax: Toronto Airport Improvement Fee C$15.00
Tax: British Airways YQ Surcharge €80.00
Tax: United Kingdom Passenger Service Charge £23.80
Re:BA Flights for EUR 616
jesse on 2005-04-29T09:05:37
Wow. Slash totally butchered those newlines :/ But the first line is the important one ;)
