Leaving on a Jet Plane

A guide to flying to, and around, Europe, including finding the cheapest transatlantic airfare, no-frills airlines in Europe, beating jet lag, and more

Choose A "Planes" Section Getting the Best Airfare  1. E-Savers  2. Fare alerts  3. Newsletters  4. Timing your trip  5. Aggregators  6. Consolidators  7. Bidding sites  8. Opaque fares  9. Vacation packages  10. Alternate airlines Major airlines Search engines Big Ben Switcheroo Big Apple Switcheroo Air-car packages No-frills airlines  - No-frills basics  - Finding low-cost carriers  - Intercontinental no-frills Student airfares European Airports Combating jet lag

A flight to Europe can cost you $170 round-trip, or it can cost you $700, $1,699, or even $2,500.

Wouldn't you prefer that first price?

That's what this section is for: finding the cheapest airfares available. Though you can access the pages in any order to find links to major airline Web sites, or learn more about Europe's no-frills carriers, or get the skinny on Priceline bidding techniques, or sign up for deals-laden newsletters, or figure out where the best consolidator fares are, or how to get downtown for the airport, or simply learn some tricks to beating jet lag, there's also a system to this particular section of the site.

It's called getting the cheapest airfare every time, and it's a step-by-step guide to whittling down that $2,500 to something more reasonable. You needn't pay more than about $500 from the East Coast, $900 from the West Coast, even in high season.

But $170 to get to Europe? Yes, it can be done. These pages will show you how.

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