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Originally Posted by Meelapo
My wife and I are going to Singapore (SIN) in September for about a week. I'm looking at flights right now and there are very limited flight carrier options to SIN leaving from YYC. There's a United flight that's appealing but the cost to book the extra legroom seats is $400 CDN per person direction (so $800 round trip person). We're normally okay with doing the extra $100-$200 but $400 seems like a lot. Given that it's a 16 hour flight the extra legroom would be great - also because I'm 6' 3" and my wife is tall too.
So we were thinking that it might be worthwhile to do a non-connecting flight to a big hub (YVR, LAX, SEA, SFO) and then picking up a flight from there to Singapore. It's a bit risky because we'd be banking on ensuring we get to one of those hub cities in time and with our luggage. Anyone have any suggestions on what we should do? Go this "travel to hub" idea or just pay United $1600 extra for the roomier seats (nothing more....it's just roomier seats).
Are there websites that find ideal routes for something like this?
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I can't recall the site but with a little sleuthing online you can find out the seat layouts of the specific flights you're thinking of taking. Then you can do seat selection. This can help you find "better" seats that sometimes come with more space versus paying extra. For example at the rear bulkhead area where the seating goes from 3 across to 2 across often the 2-seats have wider and longer space. As a tall person who has done international flights this has been super useful.
I don't know for sure but try Google Flights to explore your flight options. It's great for finding lower cost options.