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My wife is an elementary school teacher in a traditional school calendar meaning her two biggest work breaks in the year are summer vacation and the Christmas-New Year holiday break. While she gets nearly 12 weeks of vacation period, her biggest blocks of time available for international travel, mid-June and July and the Christmas-New Year…
As traveling teachers around a school year work schedule of summer and holiday weeks available for vacation travel means I have developed strategies for minimizing the price of international airline tickets during peak travel seasons. A ticketing strategy I use as a frequent traveler to Europe over peak season travel times in summer and holidays…
This past week I have had fun finding international tickets between the USA and Europe with long overnight layovers, up to 24 hours. Today’s fares San Jose SJC to London are as low as $498 in August, with common fares around $520 in September and holding around $563 through March 2018. Does anyone want to…
Norwegian Airlines has me hooked on low fares between Stockholm, Sweden and Oakland, California. I have flown this route several times over the past year, paying an average airfare around $150 one way. And now Norwegian flies Oakland to London Gatwick. There are $160 one way tickets OAK-LGW in September and October 2017. There are…
There are currently ticket prices as low as $377 round trip between San Francisco and Oslo, Norway for flights in August and September flying Finnair SFO to Helsinki. These discount fares are available through the AARP-British Airways website offering $65 discount on economy tickets. There are many ticket options for Stockholm ARN, Stockholm BMA, Gothenburg…
Last month Kelley and I flew from Stockholm Arlanda to London Heathrow as the first flight leg for our Stockholm to San Jose, California SJC round trip tickets. We return to London and Stockholm at Christmas. The tickets cost €511 ($558 USD) when I ticketed April 29, 2017. Besides getting a relatively low fare for…
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 a personal thoughts piece on how I plan travel. My travel itineraries are planned several moves and months ahead, yet I am still tweaking my hotel stays in Europe two weeks from now. Club Carlson’s Free Fridays promotion motivated me to shift some hotel nights around to Carlson properties for our July travel…
Three days ago my travel plans for Europe were all neat and organized. Two trips for February-March and July-August. Three days ago I was in the final stage of piecing together a May 10 day trip I wanted to ticket. Two days ago I was set to purchase tickets for a May 10-day trip SFO…
Nested tickets offer some real advantages for buying discount airline tickets for peak season travel. A summer vacation in Europe in July sees fares typically push upwards of $1,000 round trip from places like California. In this post I show an example of nested airline tickets strategy available today from Los Angeles LAX to Dublin,…
