Originally Posted by dvalatsas

generally oneway paid tix (or any kind of paid tix in the summer, for that matter) are a bad idea; they will cost you a fortune. I'd fly ORD-FCO on AA to keep the connections in the states for the outbound
as for ATH, you have quite a few options, including BA (LHR and all that entails...)
IB (MAD is pretty cool, and their J over the water most excellent) and
MA (never flown them, heard good things about the connections in budapest though. )