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Spain trip - choosing flights

At first, I did not plan of going to Spain even though my supervisor recommended a conference event in early January 2014. However, as time flew, I realized that I could actually attend the said conference. After much consideration and budgeting, the trip could be done within RM7000. That's including the conference fees, lodging during conference days and air flight fares. That's when I started to seriously planned for the trip in April/May. Application and approval from the university were pretty smooth. But the most headache thing was purchasing the flight tickets as I needed to make sure the total cost would not exceed the budget allocated. So, what I need was a flight flying out from KL to Spain, ideally. But at the time, there was no airline serving such route. I need to make a transit either in London, Paris, Amsterdam or any of the Middle East countries. To make life easier, I chose KL-Paris (CDG)-KL route served by MAS. Paris is the nearest to Spain, compared to Amste