As mentioned recently, prices for flights from the US to Europe are still strangely high in January, with a few notable exceptions. Typically London is the cheapest city to reach from nearly anywhere in the United States, but right now it’s not even close to being the cheapest.
However, cities in Ireland are much cheaper [...]
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Cheap flights to Madrid make it an ideal winter trip
Most regular readers of this site know that we regularly scan for the best deals for trips in the coming month or two, and today we are discussing a great bargain for a winter trip to Spain. Normally it’s much cheaper to fly into Paris, Frankfurt, or Amsterdam from the United States, but right now [...]
Fly into Naples soon on this stunning fare sale
As winter approaches this is the time of year when flights across the Atlantic normally get amazingly cheap, but so far the deals aren’t quite as shocking as they have been in years past. It’s very possible that we won’t see the best deals for a few more weeks, and almost all of the cheapest [...]
Airfares to Hawaii are very cheap right now
One of the more frustrating things about airfares in the United States is that flights to Hawaii are almost always weirdly expensive. There is a lot of competition, it’s a domestic flight, and weather problems that can confound some routes are non-existent. Yet for some reason flights even from Los Angeles or San Francisco to [...]
Flights to Ireland just got very cheap
Many close followers of this blog are aware that I’ve written once about how Ireland is an ideal destination in the fall. Well, things just got a lot better as a crazy fare sale has turned flights to the Emerald Isle as cheap as we’ve ever seen them.
At the moment the best fares we [...]
Amazing airfare deals to Leipzig, Germany, of all places
Today’s topic is a shocker and could be an interesting lesson for anyone planning a trip to Europe in the coming months. Normally the cheapest European cities to fly into are always London, Frankfurt, Paris, and Amsterdam, but today I noticed one that is far cheaper than any of those, at least for now, and [...]
Eastern Europe has cheaper fares than Western Europe right now
At least for those starting in North America, one of the constant conundrums has been that it always costs a couple hundred dollars more to fly to the cheaper countries in Eastern Europe compared to the more expensive countries in Western Europe. In fact, flights to London are usually cheapest of all, and London is [...]
Flying just after 3-day weekends can be incredibly cheap
We recently discussed how booking hotels just before 3-day summer weekends seems to be the best money saving tool, at least during a slow economy. Flights, as we pointed out, tend to be cheapest between 4 and 10 weeks before the holiday weekend, so now that we’ve got that much figured out it’s time to [...]
Booking early for holidays may not save money
I’ve written many times in this column about the conventional wisdom that, while it’s best to book non-holiday flights between 4 and 6 weeks early, it’s best to book holiday travel as early as possible. After having just looked at some interesting data from our friends over at kayak.com, I’m not so sure about that [...]
Some airfare bargains exist to surprising locations
By now you know this column is all about finding the best airfare bargains possible, and usually we stick to the most popular cities because those are the first that come to mind for most people, obviously. But today we are going to look at some unusual bargains that are now out there to far-flung [...]
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