Air France Fall/Winter sale
 

From $438 round trip (before taxes) to CDG and $60 additional to many other cities in Europe.
Travel October to March.

Clarification: October <b>15</b> to March <b>15</b>. Still, such a welcome relief from the sticker shock of summer travel this year. And it's only <b>$60</b> surcharge to <b>any</b> of <b>sixty</b> cities! Dare we go to Russia in the second half of October? Will it snow? Or is this the opportunity to give my wife a glimpse of Greece or Portugal?

Decisions, decisions...

Best wishes,

Rex

Thanks for posting!!

rex,

I agree that the $498 to St. Petersburg is a much better deal than any of the other cities (including Paris). St. Petersburg may not be snowing in mid Oct, but I'll bet it will be in Moscow.

Is that departing from New York?

From an email I recieved from Air France:

$438 for New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C.;

$538 for Chicago, Detroit;

$638 for Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco.

Must be purchased by May 22, 2006, 11:59 p.m. EDT. Saturday night stay is required; maximum stay one month. Weekend surcharge applies to travel between Friday - Sunday, each way. Travel must be on Air France-coded flights and must originate from an Air France U.S. gateway. Ticketing required within 24 hours of reservation confirmation. Fares shown above include fuel surcharge. Government-imposed fees and taxes between approximately $87 and $122 are additional, and include the September 11th Security Fee of up to $10 per round-trip. After issuance, tickets are not refundable. Changes are permitted for a $200 fee. One free stopover in Paris permitted. Other restrictions may apply. Fare is subject to limited availability and may be changed or withdrawn without notice. copyright 2006 Air France.

**list of 60 eligible cities:
Nice, Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Mulhouse, Metz, Strasbourg, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Naples, Bologna, Genoa, Pisa, Turin, Verona, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bilbao, Lisbon, Porto, Frankfurt, Berlin, Cologne, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, London, Glasgow, Manchester, Southampton, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, Warsaw, Krakow, Katowice, Prague, St Petersburg, Budapest, Bucharest, Zagreb, Tunis, Casablanca, Marrakech, Rabat, Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Salzburg, Zurich, Basel, Geneva

You've got to be a real planner to commit within the next 4 days for a trip that could be 10 months from now. Personally, I'm not that organized.

Sounds good but I am not able to commit to a trip that far in advance either. Probably why I never get good airfares.

Or as few as five months from now.

We usually book on this sale since my husband is a teacher in a private school with a vacation the last two weeks in March. It usually works out really well for us. Unfortunately the website says travel by March 31st but won't accept bookings after March 11th.

I'm that organized (read: anal retentive)!

Just booked DC to Paris for February. Will spend 3 nights in Brugge, Belgium (beer hunting West Flanders) and 2 nights in Paris. Think my early planning paid off extremely well this time...snagged an early bird 45% discount at Hotel Henri IV Rive Gauche in Paris for a whopping 88Euro a night!

Not too shabby. :)

Hm...$604 all in from JFK-FLR. Not too bad, I guess, but not a great deal.

I'm still trying to figure out the layover in Paris!

I'm starting to think maybe Bucharest - - who wants to help me plan a trip 4 nights Paris, three nights Romania? Warmer than Russia, plus presumably I can learn a decent amount of Romanian between now and October.

Whaddaya think?

For where I live the fares to Paris and the additional European city under this special is not so bad for autumn and fall travel.

rex,

Sounds great - it's on my list also (though not in the next year).

To whet your appetite. Here are Clifton's Romania photos:

http://www.trekearth.com/members/Cli...urope/Romania/

And a report:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34543931

Alitalia now seeking to match? (only vaguely) - - http://www.expedia.com/daily/advert/...813&amp;#terms - - they say from $444+ &quot;and up&quot;...

Can BA, KLM, Lufthansa and/or Iberia be far behind?

Nothing on the Cheap Flights forum of eurotrip.com yet...

Haven't been able to find any compelling deal to Greece.

Thanks for the links to Clifton's mega-report. Any one know any threads about the Black Sea resorts of Romania? Need not be swim or scuba warm so late in the year to be pleasant - - but hopefully not cold (yes, I know I could go look on worldclimate.com or weatherbase.com for these answers)...

Okay, answering my own weather question - - probably not much different than where I live (southern Indiana), or the Jersey shore, for a maritime comparison - - season &quot;over&quot; for seaside tourism, I am guessing...

rex, everyone we met in Romania spoke French - except the [rhymes with] witch at the money exchange counter at the airport. She probably knew how, but pretended not to. It was such a dreary place in 1982.

Hm...maybe I'm missing something, but when I follow the instructions per Air France and try to book a multiple destination trip, with JFK-CDG, and then CDG-Sevilla, and from Sevilla-JFK, I get a rate of $1770!!! That's before taxes!!! :O

Am I doing something wrong? I'm choosing dates in late January/early February...

mcnyc - The offer is for roundtrip and open-jaw travel. Not circle trip.

I punched in some Jan dates for:
JFK-CDG
SVQ-JFK (actually SVQ-ORY, then CDG-JFK)

The price is $547.87, including tax.

Just buy your Paris-Seville ticket seperately.

I can click on my own name, but cannot retrieve the lefthand column, clicking on &quot;Europe&quot;. How are others able to post?