I'm trying to book/pay for a flight for myself and my sister. She's coming from NY and I from RDU. For the life of me I can't figure out how we can meet up in JFK and sit together/fly from there (it's an international flight to Izmir). Orbitz has a group feature that's down right now. I've heard of trip59.com, which has not been in service for ever. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

9/4/2008 2:46:04 AM

either book each leg of the flight separately or call the actual airlines and book directly

9/4/2008 4:05:30 AM

No single airline flies to/from the cities involved. Not booking together will increase the price considerably, and will make at least one of us have to reclaim/check baggage. I need a service that will let me book this as a single trip.

9/4/2008 4:37:26 AM

No you don't. There is nothing the service will do that you can't do.

9/4/2008 6:03:26 AM

my gf and I looked into this. she was flying from Dulles, me from RDU, to LAX, and then together from LAX to Brisbane. we just had to book separate flights for our separate and combined legs.

9/4/2008 6:45:21 AM

I was in a similar situation last time I was home for a visit. My girlfriend decided to join me after I had purchased my ticket and was set to arrive about a week a I did. Since my ticket was already set, we just used kayak or sidestep or something similar and just browsed around until we found the same flight going back to Europe. We ended up leaving RDU on separate flights/airlines about an hour apart but met up in Chicago.

You could probably do something similar. It should be relatively simple assuming that there are regular flights to JFK from where your sister lives. I cant imagine that there are too many direct flights to Izmir so that may make it even easier.

9/4/2008 6:46:50 AM

Why don't you book the Izmir flight? Then book separate flights that get you into JFK at least 3 hours before your flight to deal with security and what not. You'd have to go through security again anyway once getting to JFK, the luggage thing is a non-issue.

And if she's coming from New York, and you need it on the cheap, just have her take a Greyhound bus or something. I did that from Albany to NYC and it's not bad.

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"No single airline flies to/from the cities involved."

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean whoever the airline is for the Izmir flight doesn't codeshare with airlines that fly out of RDU and NY? If that's the case there would be no way to do what you want anyway.

[Edited on September 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM. Reason : .]

9/4/2008 8:26:20 AM

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"my gf and I looked into this we just had to book separate flights for our separate and combined legs."

9/4/2008 10:06:39 AM

pick up the phone. Humans work this junk out in 10 minutes.

9/4/2008 11:25:30 AM