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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 09:59:40 No.1046173 View Reply Report Delete

How does /trv/ afford exuberant air costs? It's about $1,000 roundtrip to Europe and 1,500 for Asia. Maybe I just have a skewed view of money, being a dirt poor college student. It's frustrating because I have wanderlust bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 10:12:15 No.1046176 Report Delete

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>>1046173
You probably just don't know how to find affordable flight tickets. Return to Europe can be found from around €270,-. Don't know about USA-Asia, but return Europe-Asia starts at around €300,-.

OP Thu 29 Oct 2015 10:16:10 No.1046177 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>1046181 >>1046225 >>1046509 >>1046543

>>1046176
I was using kayak, leaving from east cost US. Checked multiple times of the year and they're roughly the same.

Am I wrong? Where should I be looking?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 10:32:55 No.1046181 Report Delete

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>>1046177
Okay. First, it is very interesting to follow certain websites that post cheap flights and stuff on their website. I don't know any American websites for this but I am sure they exist. This is a British example: http://www.holidaypirates.com/flights. Of course this will not help you directly so a few options:
- Norwegian Air Shuttle. Dirt cheap flights from Boston, New York, Orlando, Miami, and some west coast cities to Europe (mainly Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm and London). Just a quick look shows me a $299,20 return flight JFK-Stockholm in February. Yes, this is a low cost airline, so expect to pay extra for luggage, food, seat selection, etc.. But just don't be picky and take your own food. Return flight to Bangkok can also be found here for under $800,-, but they are maybe not the best option for this.
- WOW Air: Just a quick look shows me a sub $380,- return ticket Boston-Amsterdam in January/February for a month. Same goes for flights from Washington. You can also consider flying to Reykjavik, spend some time there and then use for example EasyJet to fly cheaply to Edinburgh.
- Be flexible with other airlines. But KLM tickets during their sales. Fly with Condor or something from Florida (not sure about this) to Germany. Cheap tickets are everywhere.
- For combinations of cheap flights use skypicker.com . They are awesome and gives you a lot of flexibility. Also skyscanner.com can be great of course.

So, if you have specific dates/origin/destination or something, maybe I can take a look.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 12:53:09 No.1046225 Report Delete

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>>1046177
Often search sites also give you different prices, depending on from what country you are searching.

when I check kayak (from Germany) I can for example find flights JFK to Munich and back in January for 620€ with turkish airlines (how about some skiing in bavaria?). Seems quite reasonable. I am flying to Las Vegas from Frankfurt in Dezember, and back from San Francisco for around €700 with KLM, and a flight from Munich or Frankfurt to Kuala Lumpur or Singapore can also often be found for around €500, so you should also be able to puzzle a trip to asia for under $1500.

Since yousay you are a dirt poor college student, you probably have enough time to waste to search for various combinations and legs, that might easily safe you quite a bit of money. In my example above, the short trip to las Vegas instead of SF directly saves me roughly €200. Sometimes, you can also save by picking small, backwater airports as a start (but sometimes they also are more expensive). If you have the time, invest the 5 minutes to see what a flight to the next cities would be costing. e.g. if you want to go to Frankfurt, look for Flights to Stuttgart too, for Vienna, check also Graz and Pressburg, and so on.

Its just a question of how much of your time you want to trade in for money saved on tickets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 14:00:45 No.1046238 Report Delete

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>>1046176
Cheapest you'll find USA - Asia is a little under $1,000 USD from the East Coast. Average is about $1,500 -$2k. West coast can be a cheaper by $300-$500 dollars average.

We are crossing entire oceans, non-stop. It costs more. Your 300€/£ to Asia is our flights to Central and South America, but /trv/ types don't seem to be too interested in the Western hemisphere, for whatever reason

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 14:17:40 No.1046240 Report Delete

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>>1046238
Yup, you are completely right. Flights to Central and South America from Europe are not cheap at all. If you are very lucky you will find a €550,- return flight to Bogota or Rio/Sao Paulo. Asia is usually cheaper. Flights in South America are horribly expensive though, where flights in SEA are dirt cheap.

Using skypicker I found some sweet sub €650,- return flights from east coast USA to either Manilla, HCMC, Singapore and Bangkok, though, but that's still fairly expensive. The key is always the low cost carriers though, if possible. Also sub €500,- from the west coast, btw.

While ago I found a nice route for less then €800,- which was:
Netherlands - Bulgaria - UAE - Phillipines - AUS - NZ - AUS - Singapore - Thailand - Norway. IIRC every leg was with a low cost carrier.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 14:48:17 No.1046247 Report Delete

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>>1046225
>Pressburg
Germans still use German names for Eastern European cities? Nice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 15:23:18 No.1046260 Report Delete

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>>1046247
No, but Austrians do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:49:55 No.1046316 Report Delete

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>>1046260
Germanfag here.
I just turned 18 and when I was is geography class I learned the old names too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 03:36:31 No.1046400 Report Delete

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throwaway ticketing
right now I can do NYC to most european cities for 290 one way by making moscow the final destination,
>wagecuck now so cant do this for fun anymore

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 11:48:38 No.1046509 Report Delete

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>>1046177
Have you looked at skyscanner?
I can normally find SFO - Asia travel for $5-700, but a lot of the time it's with China Southern. I'm also seeing New York - Amsterdan for $500, as long as you've got the flexibility to fly on the cheap days. Just try putting in your home airport and a flight to Anywhere

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 12:06:52 No.1046511 Report Delete

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>>1046509
>>1046509
>SFO - Asia

But he's East Coast and his main focus seems Asia. You can't get around those tickets being generally expensive. I said before you can find tickets from the West Coast at $500

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 14:45:17 No.1046543 Report Delete

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>>1046177
Wednesdays, departing at least two weeks later.

Use comparative websites like Skyscanner or Expedia and observe the stopovers, i.e. check if it would be cheaper to go to the stopover by train or ferry than to buy a plane ticket there as part of the package.

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