Purchasing plane tickets online

Numerous airlines and discount vacation internet sites provide you with the opportunity to reserve your seats on-line, which can reduce the expenses of agents and middlemen. Great deals are often found through price cut or auction sites, as well as through the airlines' very own internet sites.

Travellers from the UK and Ireland

Traveling to Barcelona from the UK normally takes about an hour and a half, about thirty minutes more from Ireland, along with connections at the other end into the city are so frequent you can very easily be on the Ramblas drinking a coffee by noon. There are actually charter plane tickets via London throughout the year, either direct to Barcelona itself, or to Girona. The widest choice of ads for London departures is usually found in the classified pages of the London listings magazine Time Out or in the Evening Standard . For departures coming from other British international airports look at the local evening papers and the Sunday Times and Observer .

Coming from Ireland , summer charter travel arrangements to the Costa Brava are easy to grab from either Dublin or Belfast, and there is a year-round nonstop scheduled service from Dublin to Barcelona. Nevertheless, other bundle getaways or city breaks are sometimes routed via London, with the add-on fare from Ireland for the connection. College students, as well as anybody younger than 31, should contact Usit, that generally has the very best cheap deals on tickets.

Flights from the USA and Canada

There are a large number of flights from most areas of the us to Madrid, together with connections to Barcelona. Occasionally, however - and particularly when you are coming from Canada - the best choice might be to route by way of another major European city. Traveling times to Barcelona (excluding lay-overs) approximately 8 hrs via New York, 9 hours from Toronto. If Barcelona and Spain are part of a longer European vacation, you are going to also want to have a look at details of the Eurail pass, which need to be purchased beforehand of your arrival and can get you by train from any place in Europe to Barcelona.

Nonstop flights from the BUS to Barcelona can be found by Delta out of New York in high season and year-round by Iberia also from JFK (approx. $1000 in high season). Air Europa operates direct flights from JFK to Barcelona via Madrid (with a short stop in Madrid but no change of plane). Iberia flies without layovers via New York, Miami and Chicago to Madrid, where you have to change planes to catch a connection to Barcelona. The US carriers Delta (from JFK), Continental (from Newark) and American (from Miami) also offer nonstop flights to Madrid, with onward connections to Barcelona on a European carrier - generally Iberia or Spanair.

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