I'm surprised/amazed how many of you are flying with FF miles. Good for you.

For the rest of us, looks like majority paid around $1000 or more.

2 lucky ones got theirs for ~$800.

I'm actually planning to book
BOS-CDG-QXG (Angers) with the second leg on TGV as an AA codeshare
Then return
BRU-JFK-BOS

Current price is $1083.

If I leave out the TGV leg, the price drops to $1028.

The difference is $55, which is around €35.

Topping this.

It's been 2 weeks since I first posted. I'm still checking fares daily, and not surprisingly, fares have gone up some (which I attributed to rising oil prices).

Now the prices are running between $1100-$1160.

Still holding out for a fare break.

yk - I just put BOS-CDG into kayak and it came up with $908 on American - departing Sept 18th and returning Sept 25th (I put in random dates). Might be worth you having a look with your dates as it'll save to $400 on a couple of tickets

I'm not sure of your exact dates, but on Lessno.com, BOS-CDG for Sept. 15-23 is $680 total. But it's on United/Lufthansa. I've been surprised by the cheaper airfares I've been able to find on that website, and so far I haven't seen any downside.

$2000 from west coast to Milan, Business Class on USAir

Going Sept 25 - Nov 4 - used ff miles but have to purchase a ticket IN Europe to get to Italy - it will be around 250.00 and I paid about 300.00 total with tax etc for the ff ticket - so about 550.00 for two tickets.

SuQue - WOW! That's an excellent fare for Business class!

wombat - thanks. I looked at kayak and the cheapest fare for my dates/cities are available thru vayama. The problem is the AA flights booked thru vayama are under fare bucket Q - which doesn't earn any miles on the transatlantic leg.

WT - I've looked at lessno a couple of times, but when I select American Airlines, it never was able to pull up any itin for me.

On one hand, I'd love to save $100-200 or even more with the flights, OTOH, I very much want to fly AA for the bonus miles and the chance for upgrade using miles + co-pay.

If UA/Lufthansa is able to offer the fare for less than $700, there must be other factors than fuel cost. It does maybe give hope AA will go down yet. I understand about the miles accumulation and the business class upgrades. With UA (I guess not Lufthansa), you could do paid E+ upgrades most likely. If you were able to save $500/ticket, then you could use that to do a mileage run on AA :).

I don't see AA listed for that route on Lessno (maybe it's too expensive to be listed in this instance), but I have seen AA listed on other routes (my own searches) on Lessno for considerably cheaper prices than I've seen elsewhere.

"No one's going to Europe in September 2008?"

Yep, going to Russia, but Skymiles are taking me there! 90,000 for First Class and I got the first date and time I requested. Score!

I am flying in Sept from DFW to Barcelona (connecting in Amsterdam) for $899 on Northwest/KLM. I also tracked for months, and the lowest I saw was around $800, but I wasn't ready to book yet.

"No one's going to Europe in September 2008?"

We're going to Spain, but it's part of a tour thing, so I don;t know what the air portion is...

Open jaw, ATL-BRE via CDG, and returning BOD-ATL via CDG (on Delta and AirFrance equipment, booked through Delta). This trip is for work, so I didn't worry too much about finding the absolute lowest price, instead opting for most convenient schedule, and paid $1166 all in.

I go to Europe almost every September and prices are generally in this range: neither as high as summer peaks, nor as low as the winter lull.

Hi WT - when I went to United.com, the price I got for the dates I needed came out to over $1200.

On Lessno, the cheapest is around $830 on LH (operated by UA) - but I can't figure out a way to find out the fare bucket for the flights. Do you know how?

I don't know how to figure out the fare bucket for a Lessno ticket, yk, but it may well be one that you're not used to seeing in any case, as some fare buckets are only sold through discounters.

Does AA tie your earned mileage award to the fare bucket? Delta doesn't penalize for discounted fares, but I know that some carriers do. In any case you'll still have lounge access and exit row access.

I'm going to Azerbaijan / Georgia / Armenia, which are counted as European destinations for Delta SkyMiles purposes, so 50,000 SkyMiles instead of $1,400.

IAH - ATH

$1126

CO (fare was basically the same on BA)

9/6/08

Therese - on AA, "Q" fares do not earn miles on transatlantic flights. Q is the consolidator fare bucket for AA.

YK, I think the only way to find out the fare bucket is to get it in writing from Lessno. I should emphasize again that I haven't personally booked them (yet).

1800flyeurope.com might be worth checking too - I see some less than $750 all-in fares around your dates there too. The same concern about mileage earning would apply there too, as I don't know what fare bucket they use.

We're flying Newark to CDG next month for $535 RT including all taxes and fees. I think the fare is still available. The catch is it's coach on Air India.

It made the difference on whether we could go or not!

But it's apples and oranges in any case, isn't it? yk is elite with AA, not UA, so even if the fare bucket doesn't earn miles it doesn't make any difference, does it? Unless yk's got status with UA as well and I managed to overlook that crucial bit of information.