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Peak season for airline ticket prices between California airports to Europe is mid-June to early August. If you can travel to Europe starting in the last week of July and first week of August, then you have the dual benefit of cheaper airfare and summer weather. Fare differences between June, July and August are illustrated…
Google Flights Explore Map is a useful tool to find low fare destinations for a weekend, one week and two weeks trips over the next six months. One week trips is the default mode. Explore Map trips me up regularly when I am searching for low fare flights on specific dates, then switch to Explore…
September, near the end of summer, is my favorite time of year to travel around Europe. Tourism crowds decrease, yet weather in northern Europe is generally still warm, while southern Europe is more tolerable temperatures than mid-July and August. Best of all, airline ticket prices from USA to European cities drop significantly. September 15-16 major…
One of the online tools I find myself using more frequently in trip planning for European vacations is Kayak Direct Flights to find out which airlines operate nonstop flights from any airport in any specific month. This article shows how and why I use Kayak Direct Flights. This is a useful tool when I am…
Google finally forced me to spend time learning to navigate their new Google Flights format after they ended access to the Classic Google Flights version earlier this month. After hours of searches this past weekend planning two upcoming trips to Europe, I finally see the improvements of the new Google Flights layout. More importantly, I…
This past weekend was mostly spent organizing a December-January trip in Europe. I have had a flight to London ticketed for six months, but no ticket back to California. Last June I flew Iberia’s low cost Level one way Oakland to Barcelona and flew back in late June with British Airways on Finnair codeshares from…
This article looks at British Airways AARP discount tickets and its limitations for booking transit city long layovers more easily found through Google Flights and Momondo.com searches. After playing around the past couple days with British Airways AARP member discounts, I have learned some of the limitations for these discount tickets to Europe. No age…
This is actually my question and I am seeking some responses. Today I posted fares for Chicago to Paris at $499 with Delta. Ticket prices I found for United nonstop flights were $507 round trip. Then a few hours later I see a similar post on SecretFlying.com. Loyalty Traveler – AA, DL, UA $499 Chicago…
Air China has matched and even beaten the low China Eastern fare from Los Angeles to New Delhi DEL India for departure dates in September and October as low as $476 round trip. This is an advantage for miles collectors headed to India since Air China economy L class flights earn 25% miles in United…
Kayak Explore is a cool tool for finding low airfare. Today is the first time I used Kayak Explore after reading the blog post on Points to be Made Quicktip: Looking for cheapest air fares to anywhere? Try Kayak… I already love Kayak Explore after an hour playing around on the site. This seems like…
