There are fare deals from $324 to $488 round trip with all three alliances for flights from Baltic cities Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius to several cities across the USA including New York/Newark, Washington DC, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Below I listed sample fares for some of the routes between Baltic cities and US…
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Booking European summer flights when all routes lead to Rome

Most enjoyable distraction of past few days between working on taxes was tackling the problem of how to get from Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia to Rome this summer. My objective was finding the best balance between low cost flights and best upscale hotel rooms at good reward rates. I redeemed hotel points from eight different hotel loyalty programs…
American $513-$567 LAX to Baltics and Poland March-Dec 2018

American Airlines has ticket prices in low $500s for LAX to Tallinn, Estonia; Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania and several cities in Poland for travel departures into early June, then mid-August to early December. There are even ticket prices around $567 for travel in July. American Airlines tickets LAX – Tallinn, Estonia $514 June LAX –…
LAX to Poland, Baltics $539 to $566 all alliances March-May

All alliances have lowered ticket prices from Los Angeles LAX to cities across Poland and the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to mid-$500s for travel late March to early May. Western Europe has ticket prices in the $400s to many places like Paris, Madrid and Rome and LOT Polish even has $500 ticket…
Oneworld $392-$430 LAX, SNA, SFO, SJC to Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius
Oneworld Alliance airlines have California to Baltic nations on sale from $392 to $430 round trip for Sep-Oct departures. Finnair flies SFO-Helsinki nonstop and provides plenty of opportunities to book long overnight transit layovers in Helsinki at these ticket prices. Other itineraries involve AA and BA and as many as 3 stops. California Airports: Los…
Low $400 fares back LAX/SFO/SJC to Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czechia, Poland
Oneworld, Skyteam and Star Alliance Airlines have fares in low $400s through their own websites and possibly high $300s from online travel agencies for LAX, SFO, SJC round trip tickets to many cities across Germany, Poland, Austria, Prague and Budapest. These low fares are only for travel through September and October. The fare sale launched…
Ticketing strategy: long layovers on intra-Europe one-way tickets
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…
Trip Report–Iceland, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden April 2017

Here are articles related to my April 2017 10-day trip flying WOW Airlines San Francisco to Iceland, Wizz Air to Vilnius, Lithuania, train and bus travel across Lithuania to Riga, Latvia and Norwegian Airlines from Riga to Stockholm. Vilnius, Lithuania This was a fast-moving solo travel trip with only one and two night hotel stays.…
Park Inn Residence Riga Barona has kitchens
Riga in Photo Detail

Two days in Riga was long enough to acclimate myself to the relatively small walking area in the central tourist zone of the city. I walked around Old Town Riga. I photographed details on early 20th century Art Nouveau architecture of Alberta iela (Albert Street; iela = street in Latvian). Riga’s Central Market Pavilions are…