Originally Posted by
prmetime
Thanks again everyone. We plan on several stops in Europe during this trip but have not definitively planned our itinerary. We'd like to go sometime in September 2015. We are open to flying into any European city but as stated early would like to limit total travel time from airport to airport at no more than 14 hours and ultimately would prefer non-stop. We are not fixed on flying as cheaply as possible but balancing costs with comfort of aircraft and duration of journey. km101 - Thanks for the suggestion re-DEN. I had the same thoughts re IAD.
Just remember that connecting via the US means twice the customs immigrations than via Canada. The way you are describing it, the nonstop YVR-FRA sounds like the best choice. about 10 hours in the air, so well under the 14 hour time limit. Any routing through another city would probably blow that limit.