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Some more information about my current research for flights to Debconf. First of all, the conditions:

• Departure from Paris, either Orly or Charles de Gaulle, Aug 8th
• Arrival to Buenos Aires
• Return on Aug 17th

All this is non negotiable

The best quote is still EUR902, which I obtained for an Air Europa flight (Paris-Madrid-Buenos Aires) on www.expedia.fr. The same flight is quoted higher is many other booking sites...including www.aireuropa.com.

Moray Alan pointed me to www.checkfelix.at which is indeed one of the most convenient search engines around...but it misses my EUR902 quote...

Don't ask why the very same flight booked from Madrid, thus direct is much more expensive: that's the joy of air transportation where nothing is logical (except in terms of getting the most out of your pocket, of course).

Probably more random results to come in my blog in the next days/weeks. I hope that all this is already useful for some of you.

Here comes this time of the year where I try booking a flight to go to Debconf.

That roughly means finding the cheapest way to go from CDG to EZE (Buenos Aires airport code).

And, as usual, that means finding the crazyness of flight prices: the cheapest I found as of now is EUR902 with Air Europa through Madrid. The funniest is that the very same flight, *from Madrid*, costs EUR1407.

Air France, which has a daily direct flight from Paris to Buenos Aires, is very expensive for me (EUR1150) and I bet that it could be as low as EUR900 for people coming.....from outside France, with a connection.

That seems to be the interesting effect of airline companies trying to attract passengers to their long distance hubs. In short, I would bet that at least for all European people around, the cheapest route to Buenos Aires will be a route with a connection somewhere lese in Europe.

So, even if one lives close to one of the biggest hubs in Europe, you nearly have no chance to use the direct flights it has to many places around...unless you're ready to pay for it.