There is a major fare sale happening today for fall/winter travel from USA airports to Europe among all three major airlines American, Delta and United and their alliance partners. Airfares are low, but not exceptionally low from most places. The real deal here is most hubs for American, Delta and United have low fares to many smaller airports around Europe from all three major airlines.
Houston IAH, a United Airlines hub, provides a good example of what is happening today in the airline ticket market with low fares being posted in the past 24 hours on many European routes on American, Delta, United and their partners. Low fares are primarily September to March 2017 travel.
Google Flights Map
Houston IAH – Venice VCE Tue Oct 4 – Tue Oct 11
- $663 Air Canada
- $667 United
- $674 American
- $704 Air France
- $708 KLM
IAH – Venice VCE is available from all three alliances at a similar low fare for the route. This same situation plays out for many other airports around Europe with fares in the $500s and $600s from many USA airports. California tends to be more in low $700s. The number of destinations in Europe makes this one of the better sales in the past year.
Sample fares from Houston IAH – Google Flights map image Oct 4-11
- Milan, Italy $668
- Nice, France $682
- Rome, Italy $688
- Zagreb, Croatia $690
- Bologna, Italy $692
- Split, Croatia $693
- Naples, Italy $694
- Marseille, France $700
- Dubrovnik, Croatia $803
Check ticket prices and most airports have alliance competition between American, Delta and United or alliance partners.
Milan, Italy MXP
- American $668
- United $671
Nice, France NCE
- Air Canada $682
- Delta $682
- United/Lufthansa $701
- Air France $706
- Iberia $710
Rome, Italy FCO
- American $688
- Delta $691 (change LGA to JFK)
- Air France $713
Zagreb, Croatia ZAG
- United $690
- Air France $718
- American $740
Bologna, Italy BLQ
- United $692
- Iberia $700
- Air France $718
Split, Croatia SPU
- United $694 (no competition here)
Naples, Italy NAP
- American $691 (requires LHR-LGW London airport change)
- Lufthansa $698
- Air France $717
Again, the prices for major airports like Rome and Milan are low, but not deeply low. The real low fare deal here are other airports like Naples, Bologna, Nice, Split and Zagreb, where you can fly on your primary ticket without adding much to the price of flying direct to a major airport. This also opens up potential open-jaw itinerary possibilities to fly into one city and out of another city.
Open-Jaw Routing Houston – Rome / Venice – Houston
Houston to Rome is $688 round trip and Houston to Venice is $674 round trip on American Airlines for Oct 4-11 dates shown above. American allows you to route an open-jaw Houston to Rome with return flights Venice to Houston for an even lower priced ticket if you make this a two-week itinerary Oct 4-18.
American Airlines Houston – Rome / Venice – Houston
$661.66 Tuesday October 4 – Tuesday October 18
These fares from Houston to Italy are similar to fares at many airports across the USA today during the first day of this fare war/fare sale to Europe.
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Ireland, UK and Scandinavia have ticket prices in the $500s and $600s for travel from September into March 2017. Germany and UK tend to be in low $700s from west coast.
Other Loyalty Traveler articles related to today’s fare sale
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Fare alert–California regional airports low late August Europe fares
Europe fares from Houston reveal extent of fare sale today (May 31).
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Fare Alert Chicago to Amsterdam $514 LOT round trip Oct-Jan (May 31).
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