Mighty tempting, Don.
Especially that Virgin flight out of Orlando.

Houston – FRA $655 Continental
JAX – FRA 774 DL
MEM – MUC 618 LH
JAX – MUC 761 DL
IAH DUS/CGN 632 LH
IAH BRU 769
IAH SXB 704 LH
PDX SXB 813 LH
PDX BUD 832 LH
SEA FRA 720 LH
SFO FRA 823 LH
DEN FRA 891 UA
SFO DUB 813 EI

Remember… you might do better with BookingBuddy.com for specific dates — always pays to be flexible and shop around. Use ITA month-long search to sniff out trends and cheaper dates, then BB to nail it down.

Also remember… better sales might come along, so keep shopping, or sign up for alerts at Farecompare.com. Fuel surcharges likely will not be dropping (much, overall), in my opinion.

Newark – Dusseldorf $532 Lufthansa
JFK – FRA 576 DL
EWR – DUB 588 CO
JFK SNN 589 DL
EWR SNN 591 CO
EWR LIS 650 CO
EWR STR 634 LH
EWR HAM 690 CO
JFK BRU 697 DL
JFK BER (TXL) 563 DL
EWR MUC 590 LH
ORD MUC 744 LH
EWR BUD 685 LH
JFK ATH 764 Olympic
BOS PRG 792 LH
JFK AGP 678 DL
EWR CPH 727 CO

I’m finding a lot of these departing Dec 29 with 6-8 night stay.

O’hare-Zurich $681 AA
JFK-BLL (Billund, Denmark) $698 KLM*
Newark-Dusseldorf $532 Lufthansa
Newark-Gothenburg $766 Continental/SAS
JFK-SVG (Stavanger, Norway) $780 KLM

• I know Billund seems random—and it is—but I search random cities sometimes just to see what comes up. BSL, SXB, LUX, SVG, SKG, SVQ for example, don’t have transoceanic nonstop flight service, but sometimes have competive fares on connection—as we see with KLM offering little Billund, Denmark with a connection at Amsterdam. (Billund is in fact DK’s second busiest commercial airport in passenger numbers, but dwarfed by CPH which is the busiest among all Scandinavian airports).

Wow… some of those are pretty good… nothing über cheap though, I see. I remember a couple years ago seeing winter flights in the 300 range

I found $754 for SFO-CDG, FRA-SFO for the dates my wife and I want, but it only gives us an hour to make our connection in Cincinnati on the return leg of our flight. I have serious doubts about being able to get off the plane, clear customs, recheck bag, go through security again, and possibly change terminals in an hour.

Augustin — if it’s all on 1 ticket or PNR (booking code), or if the 2 airlines at least have an interline (baggage) agreement, then you won’t have to re-check bags—just drop them off after customs at baggage transfer. CVG is big, but not huge, but only 1 hour is pushing it. Did you check to see if ITA can find you a connection with more time?

Good point about the baggage thing, Don. It looks like that fare is gone and there isn’t anything super cheap for our dates. We’re probably going to change the itinerary a little and spend an extra $200 each to fly United/Lufthansa SFO-LON, FRA-SFO. That will put us well over the top in terms of miles to fly free for our trip to South America next year, and allow us to get non-stop flights both ways. The non-stop thing is nice because my wife and I don’t travel well together – the fewer stops/hassles the better

Those were the good old days.
I’m just glad I was able to take advantage back then.
Still dreaming of a cheapo JAX>CDG fare, but I’ve got realistic expectations.

Tell me about it. Pundits are saying that prices will close to double next summer. I wonder if there’s any solution to this other than some major technological advancement.

JFK BER 573 DL
EWR HAM 650 CO
BOS PMO 689 AZ
JFK ATH 738 OA
ORD DUB 400 AA * cheapest I’ve seen in a long time
BOS DUB 513 EI
LGA MAN 647 US
JFK FRA 586 DL
EWR BFS 627 CO
BOS CGN 660 LH
JFK AGP 662 DL
JFK MAD 708 AA
JFK BCN 687 DL

Houston – Frankfurt $652 r/t total Lufthansa
Houston – Paris $728 Continental
St. Louis – Brussels $832 American
Houston – Copenhagen CPH $804 Air France
STL – CPH $823 Delta
Houston – LIS $783 Continental
STL – LIS $839 Continental
STL – MIL $673 Air One
DFW – LHR $816 American

PDX FRA 793 LH
SFO DUB 711 EI
PDX CGN 793 LH (interesting: train from FRA airport to QKL Cologne included in ticketing)
LAX BER 781 DL
LAX ZRH 810 LX
DFW FRA 704 AA

Nice…

Did you find anything out of Denver to London or Rome? Athens maybe? I’m indecisive…

Janet

I do check Denver when I check by groups of 5-6 airports, but it hardly ever comes up cheaper, which is why I haven’t mentioned them (much). You can easily check it out for the cities you need:

ITA month-long search

For example, the week just before and after Christmas, ITA shows cheapest for cities you mentioned $791 to Heathrow and back from Rome, if you make your own transfer between JFK and Newark coming back.

X-ref with BookingBuddy and other strategies in our new user thread (top of this forum).

- Using the month long search on ITA I see a few dates with sub $800 fares from LAX using various combos of TXL, CGN; & DUS (some open jaw, some round-trip), and from SFO using LON, CGN & MUC.
Putting in some specific dates I was searching for myself recently I found: – $696 LAX-LHR, FRA-LAX 12/22-12/30
-$669 SFO-LHR, FRA-SFO 12/23-12/31

Maybe I should just move to LA or New York…it would be easier and cheaper.

I’ll keep checking ITA and others – thanks.

Janet

13-14 night stay
CLE MUC 631 US
MIA ZRH 730 LX
CLE ROM 585 US *dep 10 Dec.
CLE OSL 796 CO
BNA LHR 635 AC
MCI LHR 656 AC
MSP LHR 696 AC

Once my in-laws decided to go with us I gave up on cheap and went for convenience, and we’re flying during the most expensive period anyway. I ended up booking us LAX-CDG with a stop at LHR for $1100 on British Airways.

KLM has some decent fares not just around the holidays, but into March out of SFO:
SFO-FRA on KLM 12/18-12/29 – $751
SFO-FRA dates through March $675

Travel Addict: DEN-FRA on KLM 12/17-12/29 – $752

PDX FRA $702 nonstop UA/LH
SEA SNN 885 CO
DSM FRA 681 UA/LH
MSY MXP 793 Air One/UA
ELP ARN 829 DL
MSY OSL 808 CO

BNA LHR 596 AC (Nashville)
MKE LHR 616 AC
DFW FRA 691 AA
ATL FRA 721 LH
STL ROM 599 US
ATL MUC 752 DL
MKE DUB 484 EI+AA/UA
BNA MAD 778 US
BNA STR 715 DL
ATL BUD 753 DL
IAD DUB 411 EI (Dulles)

OMA MAD 850 DL
TUL MAD 853 DL
MEM BCN 868 DL
MSP MIL 718 Air One
OKC ZRH 807 UA
TUL PAR 748 AA
MEM STR 656 DL
MSP LHR 701 AC
OMA DUB 701 AA
DTW DUB/SNN 583 EI

I just paid $573 for EWR FRA on CO 12/29 – 1/8

SFO – DUB $466 Air Lingus outbound (nonstop), American return (connex at Chicago) 31Dec-14Jan