Most airlines have last minute specials right on their own sites, and/or they will email you every week with their special fares for the upcoming weekend. Check the links below. I've been able to get some real good deals in the past, like Washington to Ottawa or Toronto for less than $200.
But, the YWG – MSP route is basically served by only two airlines (AC and NW – any other airline is just a partner of one of these two and they don't compete with their partners), so it might not be easy to get a cheap flight.

Okay, FIRST: WHERE to get the ticket. It doesn't matter. It will pretty much cost you the same amount, no matter how you go. If the newspaper says it's $600/RT, there are surcharges, taxes, and extra fees that add up to about the same. Figure roughly $1100. You might pay a bit more or less, but it isn't really worth it to spend too much time searching. Check the ads in the paper, call the agents, and the settle on a method, but I promise, it won't be too different, no matter where you go. Iberia is STILL the nicest airline. They were so nice to us! We returned on AA. Stay away from them if you can.

Second: WHY are you leaving at the end of April???? You want to spend all of April THERE!!!! Best time to see everything. Prettiest month of the Year. Not too hot in the south. You can play at the Feria in Sevilla, and probably catch Semana Santa.

Save your pennies now, and have them while you are there. You will not regret it. But the thing about the flight is that it all washes out the same.

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Here is my advice.

First you need to find a travel agent who works with a consolidator. Basically a consolidator will do the bidding for you, based on general dates. The downside to this is, you HAVE to remain very flexible. You cannot choose airlines, departure times and you really have to also accept that there might be layovers or more connections than you would have hoped for.

The consolidator will find the tickets, contact the travel agent who contacts you with the overall quote (which I promise will shock you with how LOW it is!!). At that point it is up to you to decide, can you do the dates, the routing, the airlines, etc? You cannot make any changes, basically it is a yes or a no at that point. Then, you always tip the agent about $50 to $100 as a commission fee.

Let me give you a great example of how cheap this can get. I went from San Francisco to Prague in the Czech Republic one week after September 11th in 2001. When I priced tickets (mind you that was MY job in corporate aviation, purchasing tickets for pilots and crewmembers) the best airfare I could find was $1,100 on line with a great deal of research.

Then I learned of the consolidator idea.

I went through the process and here is what I got… remember, San Francisco to Prague (round trip!)

$398 PLUS one night in a hotel in Helsinki, Finland!!

And the routing was really not that bad. The only complaint I had was once I got to New York, my international flights were on Finnair… and wow, you really see how American owned and operated airlines EXCEED foreign carriers! They were pretty bare bones and the plane felt a little old and dirty too!

So, check around with a travel agent first, asking them if they do work with a consolidator.

Also remember that travel agents DO work on a 10% commission of the flights, so they might not want to hook you up with a consolidator!!

Good luck, oh, one more thing. I would fly out of ORD (O'Hare) because that airport should pull some amazing prices.

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I played around on kayak.com ANd I found this on June 9 to 16
from National the fare is 802 oncluding taxes, but you have to stop twice in Boston and Zurich

Even though you are booking thru United it is actually a USAirways flight from BOS-DCA

This should get you started, play with the dates and see what else you can find.

I also tried NY airports that turned out to be more expensive
If you select EWR (Newark) and check the nearby airpots box you search all the NY airports and Philly as well

United
Flight 2564
Operated by US Airways Departs: 6:30p
Reagan- National (DCA) Arrives: 7:57p
Logan Inter­national (BOS)
Coach | Airbus A319 (Narrow-body Jet) | 1h 27m
Layover in Boston, MA (BOS) for 1h 43m
SWISS
Flight 53 Departs: 9:40p
Logan Inter­national (BOS) Arrives: 10:55a
Zurich Intl (ZRH)
Coach | Airbus A340-300 (Wide-body Jet) | 7h 15m
Layover in Zurich, Switzerland (ZRH) for 1h 15m
SWISS
Flight 1348 Departs: 12:10p
Zurich Intl (ZRH) Arrives: 2:00p
Frederic Chopin (WAW)
Coach | Airbus A320-100/200 (Narrow-body Jet) | 1h 50m

Return – Tue Jun 16 2009
This flight leaves on Tuesday and arrives on Wednesday.
SWISS
Flight 1349
Operated by Contact Air Departs: 2:35p
Frederic Chopin (WAW) Arrives: 4:40p
Zurich Intl (ZRH)
Coach | Fokker 100 (Narrow-body Jet) | 2h 05m
Layover in Zurich, Switzerland (ZRH) for 0h 50m
SWISS
Flight 52 Departs: 5:30p
Zurich Intl (ZRH) Arrives: 7:45p
Logan Inter­national (BOS)
Coach | Airbus A340-300 (Wide-body Jet) | 8h 15m
Layover in Boston, MA (BOS) for 10h 15m
United
Flight 2521
Operated by US Airways Departs: 6:00a
Logan Inter­national (BOS) Arrives: 7:25a
Reagan- National (DCA)

I’d really like to go there someday!!

1- First, book your R/T Return ticket. O/W or One-WAY/Leg fares are twice more expensive.
2- You can book an O/J or Open-Jaw, that is YYZ/Toronto to LON and back ROM>YYZ/Toronto.
3- From Europe to Canada, see:
Canada – Europe – Low Cost

http://www.canadian-affair.ca/

http://www.flyglobespan.ca/index.asp?lan=CA

http://www.airtransat.com/

http://www.aircanada.com/

http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/ is the best site because it includes actually "all airlines". You can also sign up for alerts.

Expedia and yahoo will work semi somewhat.

If you search on any flight search engine above however, and you find a reasonable flight, make sure you go to the actual airlines website and check for the same fight/time also, it happens that sometimes the prices drop there before it gets to the search engines, also saves on occational "service fees" of some of the search engine providers.