Madrid Spain On American Airlines From Auckland $1714 And A Random $1656 W Air China Christchurch $1700 Wellington $1711

—So I was watching NZ v Sri Lanka in the cricket last night and playing around with dates and found American Airlines has a sale on to Europe. Now this is odd because it almost never appears in my hundreds of searches - almost always, the cheapest path to Europe is heading NW from NZ to Australia/Asia and westwards to Europe, not eastwards through the US. So hey, a win!

So then I wrote a python script to check thousands of dates overnight, woke up to find it’d broken, fixed it, and ran it again, and it’s just fnished now as I watch SA v Afghanistan, so time to post. These late night updates are hopefully going to decrease after the cricket world cup ends, although my 4 month old might have something to say about that ;)

Anyway, I’ve posted the best below.

What I nearly left out, but felt I should at least show it - on almost every date the cheapest way to Madrid was via AA - except for one date in March. I checked it manually, and indeed, while AA is $1714 that day, Air China is $1656. So I’ve left that in, in case :P

Now if Afghanistan’s middle order could just roll over already, I might get an earlyish night ;)

Don’t forget a hotel.

Auckland to Madrid

Dates: 10 Nov 23 - 31 Mar 24

Return Price	Travel Dates
$1735	10 Nov to 24 Nov
$1733	13 Nov to 1 Dec
$1715	16 Nov to 4 Dec
$1715	19 Nov to 7 Dec
$1715	22 Nov to 6 Dec
$1718	28 Nov to 24 Dec
$1715	21 Jan to 4 Feb
$1715	24 Jan to 7 Feb
$1715	27 Jan to 26 Feb
$1715	30 Jan to 13 Feb
$1715	5 Feb to 19 Feb
$1715	8 Feb to 5 Mar
$1715	11 Feb to 12 Mar
$1715	14 Feb to 11 Mar
$1714	20 Feb to 21 Mar
$1723	23 Feb to 20 Mar
$1714	26 Feb to 27 Mar
$1724	29 Feb to 14 Mar
$1725	3 Mar to 25 Mar
$1714	6 Mar to 20 Mar
$1663	12 Mar to 26 Mar

• Cheapest :$1663 return

Christchurch to Madrid

Dates: 20 Jan 24 - 11 Jun 24

Return Price	Travel Dates
$1716	21 Jan to 4 Feb
$1734	21 Jan to 8 Feb
$1734	21 Jan to 12 Feb
$1737	21 Jan to 16 Feb
$1751	2 Feb to 16 Feb
$1751	2 Feb to 24 Feb
$1733	2 Feb to 28 Feb
$1751	2 Feb to 3 Mar
$1718	11 Feb to 25 Feb
$1718	11 Feb to 4 Mar
$1733	11 Feb to 8 Mar
$1718	11 Feb to 12 Mar
$1755	14 Feb to 3 Mar
$1755	14 Feb to 11 Mar
$1734	20 Feb to 21 Mar
$1716	23 Feb to 8 Mar
$1734	23 Feb to 12 Mar
$1700	8 May to 22 May
$1700	8 May to 3 Jun
$1700	20 May to 3 Jun
$1700	20 May to 11 Jun

• Cheapest :$1700 return

Wellington to Madrid

Dates: 28 Nov 23 - 05 Jun 24

Return Price	Travel Dates
$1835	28 Nov to 24 Dec
$1874	18 Jan to 13 Feb
$1890	21 Jan to 12 Feb
$1834	24 Jan to 23 Feb
$1734	30 Jan to 25 Feb
$1764	8 Feb to 5 Mar
$1734	20 Feb to 21 Mar
$1714	8 May to 22 May
$1714	8 May to 26 May
$1714	8 May to 3 Jun
$1711	14 May to 28 May
$1711	14 May to 5 Jun

• Cheapest :$1711 return