ok, so it doesn't seem to be THAT huge of a deal, but after searching exhaustively for flights to central/eastern europe for august, and finding nothing really cheaper than $1,100. I found continental's route to cologne, germany was only $800. Tried a couple of other bigger cities, and it gets down to $700. That's after taxes.

I know that still sounds like a lot, but it's a $300 savings over everything else I was finding. Just thought I'd put it out there if anyone cares.

Hi there,
as I'm from Germany I would give you a hand on that!
Just give me your details and I will have a small search made!
Departure Date and Location (maybe alternates), favorite destinations (and alternates) and return date....
Best wishes,

HamburgAround
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home of the US-team during soccer-WM 2006 in Germany

ORL/LAS/FMY-FRA-DE (Condor) $256 base (120 surcharge) + tax
COS-CGN-CO $700 (120 surcharge) + tax
MIA-MUC-LT (LTU Airways) $699 (108 surcharge) + tax

Can be found at condor.com and ltu.com.

Flying to Florida in the summer is cheap so you can get a good deal by combining a domestic ticket with one of these low cost airlines to Germany.
Not overly familiar with them but they seem to cater to the German inbound Florida traffic.

ORL/LAS/FMY-FRA-DE (Condor) $256 base (120 surcharge) + tax
COS-CGN-CO $700 (120 surcharge) + tax
MIA-MUC-LT (LTU Airways) $699 (108 surcharge) + tax

Can be found at condor.com and ltu.com.

Flying to Florida in the summer is cheap so you can get a good deal by combining a domestic ticket with one of these low cost airlines to Germany.
Not overly familiar with them but they seem to cater to the German inbound Florida traffic.

all of those come out to be more expensive than what I found.

Continental is $800 after taxes. I priced out the 3 flights you mentioned, they come to over 1k after taxes and the like.

ok, so it doesn't seem to be THAT huge of a deal, but after searching exhaustively for flights to central/eastern europe for august, and finding nothing really cheaper than $1,100. I found continental's route to cologne, germany was only $800. Tried a couple of other bigger cities, and it gets down to $700. That's after taxes.

I know that still sounds like a lot, but it's a $300 savings over everything else I was finding. Just thought I'd put it out there if anyone cares.

What was the other bigger city that you found for $700? I will be traveling to Germany in July to do a race in Frankfurt - my issue with Continental is they will charge me $80 each way to bring my bike but if the savings is enough, it will still make sense to go pay that fee. Thanks

Hello, i am also interested in a cheaper airfare to germany during the summer since i will not be able to use my ID tickets to travel standby(too overbooked)

Thanks!

What was the other bigger city that you found for $700? I will be traveling to Germany in July to do a race in Frankfurt - my issue with Continental is they will charge me $80 each way to bring my bike but if the savings is enough, it will still make sense to go pay that fee. Thanks

it was new york i believe. just mess around on the continental website, flying into Cologne

I'm flying Aer Lingus from JFK (other options abound). I booked well over a month ago, so I'm paying something like 517 US all in. From Dublin, I'm just using Ryanair, or whatever. Hope this helps

NYC-HAM
20th Aug. - 4th Sep. on Continental
637$ all in !!!
And Hamburg is just a 3.5 h ride on a ICE to go to FRA or 1.5 h to go to TXL/Berlin, CGN/DUS is around 4 h away....

I'm flying Aer Lingus from JFK (other options abound). I booked well over a month ago, so I'm paying something like 517 US all in. From Dublin, I'm just using Ryanair, or whatever. Hope this helps
I may only recommend you to start searching and booking that flight as prices tend to go extremely up the shorter the departure day is ahead....

Just found a flight in July:
11th - 26th from JFK to DUS at 645$ all in,
on LTU / LT, a german charter carrier.
On www.ltu.com you may as well try to use "Biet & Flieg"/bid & fly and bid a lower amount. YOu may get the flight at 499$ or 549$ all in ;-)
I don't know about addtl. charges for a bicycle though....
enjoy

Prices today make me long for the days of People Express flying across the Atlantic at $99 each way.

With LTU you can buy the LTU Card which is valid for 1 year for USD 35. The card gives you free transport of your bike and seat reservation in advance!

Prices today make me long for the days of People Express flying across the Atlantic at $99 each way.
Can you say Sir Freddie Laker?

Yes, good old days. Flew on Laker way back when :)

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