$648 Chicago-Rome Sept. Airfare
 

I have just booked $648 airfares through www.expedia.com for Sept. 3-12 travel from Chicago to Rome. The first leg is with Air India, with a short stop over in Frankfort, transferring to a Lufthansa flight into Rome. I saw the same fares into Milan (LIN airport), Turin, and Venice. Don't know about any other departure cities.

While I was playing with dates, etc. the price changed to over $4,000, and when I called expedia, they told me that the fares were being updated, and to try back in an hour. The lower fares were back up within the hour. Good Luck!

Congratulations on a great fare find.
I've been searching for fares for New Orleans-Rome for Sept/Oct and haven't come anywhere close to that one.

Very good price, Sandy.

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Great find! We also found a short-lived great deal to Italy for September. We got open-jawed tickets from Newark - Venice and returning Rome - Newark for $572 pp on Tap Air (Portugal) for Sept. 16 - 26. The other tickets for those dates start around $800-$900.
Any other good finds out there?
Kelly

SandyB: great fare and please tell us this did not happen in the middle of the night on a Wednesday!!!

We live in the midwest and have a fair amount of frequent flyer miles (but not enough to get free flights to Europe). It's cheaper to fly from the coast, so we may use frequent flyer miles to/from the east coast, then pay the lower ticket fare from there. (We did this on a trip to Australia and NZ a few years ago, paying for flights to/from LAX, and it saved us about $400 per ticket.)

We're looking at round trip fares of $662 for Newark/Milan on Continental on their Web site in October. We'll use frequent flyer miles round trip MSP/EWR.