Philadelphia is a hot bed of low fare activity today with United and Delta attacking American and AA offering lower fares on several routes. Manchester, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin and Zurich are all between $500 to $550 round trip with one, two or all three major alliance airlines. Paris and Munich are in $580s and $590s.
London is also discounted to around $700 round trip for December holiday travel. Bare in mind that many low fare United flights include Amtrak train Philadelphia to Newark for flights departing EWR-Europe or fly Air Canada via Toronto or Montreal.
Here is a run down of low fares I see at 2:30pm Pacific time. Google Flights fare links to the route and dates are embedded.
Manchester, UK $500 – $536
American Airlines $535.86 – $578 (Oct 3-28) Most dates around $536. American’s advantage is nonstop flights. United has far more dates
American Airlines Philadelphia PHL – MAN Manchester, UK nonstop flights
$535.86 Sunday Oct 9 – Sunday Oct 16
Delta Airlines offers little competition on this route with low fares of $551 to $576, but only on 12 dates between Oct 3-29.
United has most availability for PHL-MAN route.
United Airlines $499.96 – $586 Oct 20 – Dec 15. United has far more low fare dates than American or Delta with departures into December. There are two dates with $500 (Dec 11) and $506 (Oct 23) fares. Cheapest flights require Amtrak Philadelphia to Newark all flights United tickets tend to be $570 tickets.
United Airlines Philadelphia – Washington IAD – Dublin DUB – Manchester MAN – IAD – PHL (Itinerary makes $536 AA nonstop look really good).
$572.76 Sat Oct 29 – Sat Nov 5
United Airlines Philadelphia ZFV Amtrak train – Newark EWR – Manchester UK MAN –Dublin DUB – EWR – Amtrak train Philadelphia
$499.96 Sun Dec 11 – Sun Dec 18
Philadelphia to London $719 – $723 Nov 1 – March 31 AA/DL/UA December Holiday Fares same price
I admit that I am not all too familiar with normal holiday December fares for Philadelphia to London, but $723 seems like a reasonably low fare for Christmas/New Year’s travel to Europe from anywhere in the USA. 2016 is certainly not a normal year for airfare. Deals abound in 2016. It has been Christmas all year for airfare deals.
Anyway, I would not write about a $720 fare from east coast to London, except this one is good for Christmas week travel with AA, DL and UA.
American Airlines Philadelphia PHL – Dublin DUB – London LHR
$722.96 Monday Dec 19 – Thu Dec 29
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There are lower priced flights at $710.66 PHL-LGW via Amsterdam on same dates.
Delta offers nonstop flights for same $723 price.
Delta season is also Nov 1 – March 31 with fares $723 to $733 round trip. This is the best deal on this route.
Delta Airlines Philadelphia PHL – London LHR
$722.56 Mon Dec 19 – Thu Dec 29
United Airlines has same deal at $719-$723 Nov-March 2017.
Amsterdam $506-$531 Season: Oct lowest fares; Nov 1 – Dec 15
Delta $521 – $546 (Nov-Dec_
Munich MUC $580 – $595
United $588 Air Canada or United
American Airlines Philadelphia PHL – Munich MUC
$580.26 Fri Nov 4 – Sat Nov 12
Paris $595 – $607 Oct 21-29, Nov – Dec 9
American $595.26 (Oct 21-29 departures only for nonstop flights)
Delta $607.06 (Oct 21-29, then Thu-Sat to Nov 24)
United/Air Canada $595.35 Oct 21-29, then $617-$649 some Thu-Sat to Dec 9).
Zurich Oct 3 – Dec 9 $531-$542
American $532 – $557 lowest fares involve change of airport in NYC. (Oct 3-31 only, no low Nov-Dec fares)
Delta $531.16 More dates in early October with Delta, fewer dates in Nov-Dec. Delta looks like best deal for this route.
United/Air Canada $542 Oct 21-29 few Nov-Dec dates.
Delta Airlines Philadelphia PHL – New York JFK – Zurich ZRH – JFK – PHL
$531.16 Thu Oct 6 – Fri Oct 14
Dublin $525 – $548 Sep 3 – May 21 end of schedule
American $527.26 – $532 lots of Sep-Oct dates, then scattered dates through May 2017
Delta $548 very few dates
United/Air Canada $525.44 – $532 Sep 17-26
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