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AA/UA LAX/SFO to Chicago $127 round trip for cheap Europe tickets

There is an opportunity today for American Airlines $127 round trip tickets between Los Angeles or San Francisco and Chicago for departures October to March. Frontier has fares down to $117 round trip and United is $132 in January for LAX-ORD. United and Delta do not have sale fares from SFO.

The deal I see is the opportunity to connect in Chicago for a sub-$500 round trip ticket to cities across Europe with any of the major airlines. I spent the last 48 hours planning 5 weeks of European travel for 2017 from California. Flying to Chicago from San Francisco was one of the lowest priced options for winter travel to Europe, but ultimately I paid more per ticket to fly out of San Francisco directly to London and avoid Chicago in winter.

American Airlines   San Francisco SFO – Chicago ORD nonstop

$141.20 round trip  Friday Feb 3 – Sat Feb 11

SFO-ORD AA $142 Feb3-11

 

American Airlines   Los Angeles LAX – Chicago ORD nonstop

$126.20 round trip Friday Feb 3 – Sun Feb 12

LAX-ORD $126 AA Feb3-12

 

Delta Airlines  Chicago ORD – New York JFK – Paris CDG – Chicago ORD

$476.86 round trip  Friday Feb 3 – Sat Feb 11

ORD-CDG $477 DL FEb3-11

Google Flights fares Chicago ORD – Europe

Friday Feb 3 – Sat Feb 11

  • Oslo $430
  • Brussels $443
  • Amsterdam $451
  • Copenhagen $465
  • Paris $474
  • Stockholm $490
  • Budapest $492
  • Bucharest $493
  • Frankfurt $504
  • Munich $531
  • London $553
  • Madrid $578

Google Flights ORD-Europe fares Feb 3-11

Many of these cities in Europe are priced $100 to $300 lower for travel from LAX or SFO when buying a cheap ticket to Chicago and flying from there to Europe. Similar low fare deals are available for winter travel to European cities in the $400s and low $500 from Denver and Seattle too.

Icelandair has some high $300s fares Chicago to Oslo, Norway and free stopover in Iceland can be scheduled at time of booking.

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