Holidays and Airlines

re: Holidays and Airlines

Jeroen — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 06:46:00 GMT

You should visit The Netherlands, seeing as you'll be both west, east and south of it :) And not just because I'm Dutch myself, but mostly because most foreigners I know always love their stays here, even though I can't completely figure out why.

re: Holidays and Airlines

Frederik Carlier — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 06:47:00 GMT

If you want cheap travelling accross Europe, then check out these airlines:
* Rynair (http://www.ryanair.com)
* Easyjet (http://www.easyjet.com)
* German Wings (http://www.germanwings.com)
* Hapag-Lloyd Express (http://www.hlx.com)
* V-bird (http://www.vbird.com)
and some others :). Of just do the real thing, and take the train (Eurostar - http://www.eurostar.com) or Thalys (http://www.thalys.com). That way you save the expensive tickets ;)

re: Holidays and Airlines

Mike Walsh Helsinki — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:46:00 GMT

This reminds me of getting to Manchester (England) to see my parents. Copenhagen (where MS was flying me and then back to Finland) is roughly half way so I thought it would be cheaper from there than from Helsinki.

In the end it was, but only by booking my Copenhagen-Manchester-Copenhagen SAS flights from the www.sas.se (Swedish) SAS site rather than from the www.sas.fi (Finnish) SAS site. [Note in neither case did the flight start or end in either Sweden or Finland].
Booking via the .se site was also only possible because my son lives there so he received my credit card receipt (and promptly lost it)!

re: Holidays and Airlines

ray — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:49:00 GMT

There are plenty of companies offering around-the-world tickets - usually you can only travel in one direction, so no doubling back.

This is usually the favourite way for backpackers from Europe/Australia/New Zealand/South Africa to see as much as possible in a limited time period (usually 1 year). You can find prices at most independent travellers agencies.

You can also try:
http://yorktown.airtreks.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Estimator.woa/6/wo/2JoH2Ugplq5p2St0GrnXPg/0.WOMetaRefresh

re: Holidays and Airlines

ray — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:56:00 GMT

some more info

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Savinganddebt/Travelforless/P76077.asp

re: Holidays and Airlines

Peter Torr — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:09:00 GMT

Thanks for the tip Ray. I looked into it at a local travel agency but they couldn't do any better on price. I've nevertheless put my details into Airtrek.com and will see what happens.

Jeroen, I actually know someone in Holland so I might drop by for a few hours ;-)

In Europe we plan to either take the train or to drive.

re: Holidays and Airlines

jeffdav — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:05:00 GMT

Dude- I will be in St. Louis next month, so if you want to take a quick detour... er, oh, wait. I probably meet too many of your "need not apply" criteria. :D