pdx

rbnwdlr - good luck but I don't have a lot of hope. I haven't seen any references to summer fares at all. The advertisements are still winter and spring fares, nothing past April.
I'm starting to look at changing destinations. Madrid is $400 cheaper than Barcelona and we've started considering eliminating Paris completely. This would be tragic though, as it's our goddaughters destination request.
I have seen more activity in the past couple days with more flights and different airlines being added to the routes I'm searching so I haven't completely given up hope.

Images2

You can fly Easy Jet from Barcelona to Paris inexpensively. I'm doing this in April.

humptynumpty

US Airways have some good prices for travel across the Atlantic before Easter. We found £388 for Manchester to Miami return which is the lowest I have seen in a long time. Post Easter, the prices are back up to £600 plus.

It is going to be an expensive summer and the tinpot dictator in Libya isn't helping.

For those of you coming to Europe, you can still travel around Europe at a cost of 4 sticks of chewing gum using Ryanair. We found £31 all in for Liverpool to Ibiza in May. Although, they charge you for breathing and breaking wind.

rbnwdlr

LOL, if I had more time to play with I might consider flying to London or Dublin then doing Ryanair or some such. As it is we have 10 days including travel days for Venice, Tuscany, and Rome for first-timers. I will likely pay through the nose and then stay home next year. Boohoo.

Weekender

Booked tickets a few weeks ago for Bilbao at end of May. United/Lufthansa with fare of $940.

Weekender

I heard on network radio this morning that the airlines are expecting to add large fuel surcharges on international trips thru late summer/early fall.

rbnwdlr

They just did!!!! The flights I was going to book this afternoon just went up by $111 since this morning!!! They are up $200 since a week ago! Damn! I am booking tonight after work before I need to win the lottery to get to Italy!

nini

We booked last November for our late May/mid June trip to France & Switzerland-into Paris & out of Zurich. Used up all our Delta miles (60,000 per tic), transferred some points,bought a few miles,added taxes, and long story short, our trip came to $480 for the two tics. Best of all we're flying AF nonstop both ways. We will, most likely, never top this.

rbnwdlr

Genius, nini!

pdx

The fares I've been following took about a $100 dip today. Still $1400, though.

pdx

rbnwdlr, did you book or are you still waiting to purchase?

rbnwdlr

Booked. Paid about $1200 per ticket. NEVER paid that much before! Ouch.

pdx

Painful but acceptable this year and this late in the game. Don't be too hard on yourself.