AA/DL July Fare War $648-$670 PHL/JFK to Brussels/Zurich

American and Delta have a little summer fare war happening today on New York JFK and Philadelphia routes to Brussels and Zurich at $648 to $669 for July-August departures on American Airlines flights. This deal allows for a short notice trip to Europe this month and the potential to pick up AAdvantage miles before the August 1 change to revenue-based miles earning. These fares and some even lower fares are also available through August. Looks like AA requires at least 6-7 days trip for lowest fares.

Update July 6, 9:15am Pacific time: Delta looks like they already increased fares on these routes. I was working on another article about $546 Delta July fares PHL-DUB and they disappeared as I was writing up the deal. Now I see these Delta links do not price out at fares shown in this post. I am still finding low AA fares, but this one may go away quickly since Delta is no longer competing.

New York JFK – Brussels, Belgium BRU

• American $670 – $689
• Delta $681 – $693

Philadelphia PHL – Brussels, Belgium

• American $648
• Delta $693-$695

New York JFK – Zurich, Switzerland ZRH

• American $670 – $681
• Delta $655

Philadelphia PHL – Zurich ZRH

• American $655
• Delta $670

American Airlines Philadelphia – Brussels

$647.46  Sun July 17 – Wed July 27 nonstop flights.

PHL-BRU-PHL = 7,521 flight miles.

American Airlines Philadelphia PHL – Zurich ZRH

$668.76  Sun July 17 – Wed July 27

PHL-ZRH-PHL = 8,049 flight miles.

American Airlines New York JFK – Zurich, Switzerland ZRH

$654.56 round trip Monday July 18 – Monday July 25

JFK-ZRH-JFK = 7,862 flight miles.

American Airlines New York JFK – Helsinki HEL – Brussels, Belgium BRU – HEL – BRU (FinnAir operated flights)

$667.26 round trip Monday July 25 – Sunday July 31

JFK-HEL-BRU-HEL-JFK = 10,285 flight miles. Finnair economy O class earns 100% AAdvantage redeemable miles and 50% EQM.

After Aug 1 this same ticket earns 561 x 5 = 2,805 redeemable miles for AAdvantage members with no elite status.

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