What are you paying for 2010 or 2011 Europe travel flights?
Aug 18th, 2010, 08:56 AM
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What are you paying for 2010 or 2011 Europe travel flights?
Please do not post details on flight dates if uncomfortable (safety reasons), but a general idea when, from where and how much are you paying. I am struggling with the idea of recalibrating how much to pay for European travel. After 25 years of traveling to Europe at least twice a year, I am finding paying $700+ for shoulder season from the Northeast a crime!
OK, let me have it....how much you paid? what was your threshold? (BTW, let's keep it nicey nice...
OK, let me have it....how much you paid? what was your threshold? (BTW, let's keep it nicey nice...
Aug 18th, 2010, 09:04 AM
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This year was tough. In October 2009 I found $502 r/t Columbus to Paris and $420 r/t Columbus to London. This year there have been no cheap flights that I could find so I finally caved and used my FF miles to book. One thing I found interesting this year: I booked all tickets one-way and the prices were lower than the r/t fares, so try that. (I booked open jaw cmh - cdg/Amsterdam - cmh)
Aug 18th, 2010, 09:05 AM
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It was the cheapest ticket on American. Other airlines were less, but I had a voucher on American, so paid more than I could have on anothter airline. I followed fares between Feb and May. The lowest I saw was in the high 700s.
Aug 18th, 2010, 09:15 AM
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MelJ- my experience was very similar to yours. On 2009 I found the lowest prices on flights to Italy I've ever seen! I flew on early May to Milan from the Northeast (not JFK nor EWR!) for $430!! This year I had to pay $700+ for late April to Barcelona from JFK (urghhh!!).
Jackie-- you are right; the trend this year was a flat line upwards of the $700 point!
Jackie-- you are right; the trend this year was a flat line upwards of the $700 point!
Aug 18th, 2010, 09:33 AM
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I'm going to make some of you feel like you won the lottery with the great deals you got - I am flying open jaw, non-stop Atl - FCO and return ATH - ATL thru JFK. After watching, watching and seeing little change I booked for around $1100 for in Oct. (we had to fly on certain dates, so I pulled the trigger). Well of course then the price goes down by over $300 - not a happy camper! But wait - shortly thereafter they change our flights, very slightly but it shortens our connection at JFK. I call and talk to an agent about the connection time and she says its pretty tight, probably not enough, so we decide to book us onto a later flight. And guess what - that gets us vouchers for the price difference! That made my day - so our fares eneded up being around $800, sort of. But its always nice to have a voucher that you HAVE ro use!
Aug 18th, 2010, 09:46 AM
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$927.20 Sept 5, 2010 Shreveport to Zurich return Nice to Shreveport. I am checking now for my May-June trip. Depart SHV-MXP on 5-25-11 return NCE-SHV on June 15 I found $955.53 on www.1800flyeurope.com Sounds good
Aug 18th, 2010, 11:30 AM
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Wow Joan - was able to replicate your fare... we are looking to go to CDG and AMS in early October but tickets are $900+... trying to be creative but not having much luck in bringing the price down.
