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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…
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…
This is Part Two of my presentation for a strategy to cheap AAdvantage Platinum elite qualification in 2017 flights with British Airways Premium Economy tickets. Part One lays out the American Airlines AAdvantage frequent flyer program changes effective for redeemable miles as of August 1, 2016 and Elite Qualifying Dollars effective for earning AAdvantage elite…
This article compares the final ticket price for the three airline ticketing options of Norwegian, WOW and a major alliance carrier. I compare the final round trip ticket price for a traveler flying San Francisco Bay Area to Stockholm, Sweden in January 2017 on Norwegian, WOW and Star Alliance member SAS Scandinavian Airlines with a pre-assigned seat,…
Icelandair often has the lowest fares to cities in Europe from Boston, New York JFK, Washington IAD and Chicago ORD. Icelandair also flies from Denver and Seattle, but those fares are not discounted as frequently or deeply. Many of the low fares in the $400s from the major carriers seen over the summer were fare…
In this post I share examples of three of my favorite strategies when buying airline tickets: Open-Jaw Tickets, One-Way Tickets and long airport layovers with the best deals often allowing up to 24 hours or even more in a city as a transit layover. In some cases the airline offers free or near free stopovers…
There is a good ticketing opportunity available today if you would like to travel to Europe two or three times over the next eight months, especially if you need to travel during holiday periods like Thanksgiving week, Christmas and Easter periods. The major alliance airlines have dropped round trip fares down to as low as…
There are many low fare deals from cities across Europe to cities across the USA available with Oneworld Alliance, SkyTeam Alliance and Star Alliance. for travel September to March 2017. In brief, there are round trip tickets priced from $350 to $450 from Tallinn, Estonia and the Baltics to Madrid and Barcelona, Spain; Milan and…
