Nashville and New York

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Looking to go to Nashville in early Sept for 4 nights then New York for 3 -4. We’ve been to New York but never Nashville - we’re going to see a band but other ideas ? Would love to go line dancing /typical cowboy bar ! Flights from london seem really high mid week any ideas welcome on good value direct flights ! Thanks

Just for the sake of expectation management 'd say AFAIK there isn't a lot of competion when it comes UK<> Nashville direct or non-stop (it's a relatively new destination for the likes of BA) so without going non- direct you might struggle to get anything cheap, but fingers crossed you do.

Probably not much you can do about it but any chance the "in" at Nashville, "out" of New York is pushing the price up...

Hi @notimagain i haven’t looked at the return leg from nyc yet just had a look at flights to Nashville - we need to go to nyc as we’ve plans there - I guess we’ll have to suck it up. Might try an agent tomorrow like Trailfinders before booking independently

Nashville is great ! Lots to see and do . The country music hall of fame . The grand old Opry ( my non country lover DH really enjoyed the experience. The Ryman Auditorium- again country but interesting enough. Loads of bars down the main strip all with bands playing . In the gulch area lots of live music too . We flew internally from Memphis not too expensive.

You probably know all this but don't forget single (one way) fares tend to work out v. pricey so can distort estimates, and (this is one for the booking experts) an "open jaw" booking might do similar.

Be interesting to see how prices work out if you try a three sector booking (e.g. London-Nashville-NY- London) with a single operator/one of the alliances..(e.g. American, BA etc).

Good luck.

Go on Google Flights. Choose multi-city instead of return at the top, then set the first segment to London - Nashville and the second segment to NYC - London (or viceversa). This will give you much cheaper options than looking at single prices, you can play around with dates, check direct vs non-direct prices, and both tickets would be booked together so in the event of a cancellation, you can deal with the airline all in one go.

Not much help but putting it out there, Aer Lingus are flying to Nashville from Dublin and you’d get you pre-clearance done too.

Thanks everyone!