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…
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How to search Momondo for international ticket long layover cities

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…
International Ticketing Strategy for transit city long layovers
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…
LAX-Dublin $1,200 two nested airline tickets St. Patricks and July trips

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,…
LAX nested tickets $1,000 Thanksgiving + Christmas Munich/Salzburg
There is a low fare opportunity for Los Angeles to Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Germany or Salzburg and Vienna, Austria and some other cities for travel over Thanksgiving and Christmas at an average ticket price of around $500 to $600 per trip when booking nested tickets for two trips to Europe in 2016. Finding a $500…
AA $432 LAX-ORD-BOS-DCA-MIA-DEN-LAX visit 5 USA cities for less than cheap ticket to Europe
There are very low one-way fares starting around $40 with American and United to airports around the country. Looking at low fares today got me to thinking about how it is possible to travel the USA cross country and stay in five major cities for around $400 all-in using American Airlines or United one-way tickets.…
What is the best day to buy an airline ticket to Europe?
Articles on the ‘best day to buy a ticket’ are a joke. Cut to the chase. The best day to buy a ticket to Europe is when the fare is low and that can happen any time 24/7. A more predictable strategy for finding low airfare to Europe is having knowledge of which airports tend…
Cheaper flights to Europe by starting in Europe
My main strategy for frequent travel to Europe this past year is plan my itineraries for low cost round trip American Airlines tickets starting in Europe. This ticketing strategy can be done with any of the frequent flyer programs in major airline alliances of Oneworld, SkyTeam and Star Alliance. Cheaper flights from USA to Europe…
United Airlines nested tickets strategy for cheaper USA to Europe summer travel
This article is about how you can sometimes use a nested ticket buying strategy to lower the cost of travel when planning on travel to Europe or some other international destination or region two or more times in a year. United Airlines and Star Alliance carriers have a fare schedule today for low priced flights…