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Originally Posted by DJ FC
But Helsinki is sooooooo far away.
Are there really no good flights to Lisbon? That should be like a 6 hour flight. Instead you'll be doing like 9 to Helsinki and then 4 back to Lisbon.
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Not really. Ideally I'd much rather fly directly nonstop into Lisbon. There's not many of those flights and I couldn't find any for the days I chose. It's 8 hours from NYC to Helsinki --get a one day layover. Then the 4 hour flight early the next morning. It is about 12 hours in the air total. But the breaking it up makes it more palatable.
The other options had all had other issues as well. Boston to Madrid is 7 hours. But the NYC to Boston is 3.5 (including a layover and switching planes). Another two hour layover in Barajas before heading to Lisbon --which isn't bad considering there's maybe 1 flight per day. All totaling 16 hours and 30 minutes according to Kayak. That to me seems to be the bigger ass-whip. And it's $500 more to do it that way.
Some of the other options were connecting into Istanbul. Barcelona is really the easiest city to get to Lisbon from and I wasn't even thinking about that when I book this trip.