Flights
By maximax8
@maximax8 (31044)
United Kingdom
September 1, 2011 11:52am CST
I read something which said a trip around the world ticket to popular destinations would cost as much as a ticket from America to two places in South America. The cheaper gateway airports in the world are London, Hong Kong, Sydney, Auckland, Los Angeles and New York. Places like Mauritius, Madagascar, Argentina and Chile are expensive to fly to from England.
My favorite airlines are Qantas, Air New Zealand and Virgin Atlantic. I also like a charter airline called First Choice. I got cheap flights on that airline to Mexico in 2006 and the Maldives in 2005. I traveled on Virgin Atlantic London to Los Angeles and London to Cape Town return. I have traveled for most of my trip around the world on Qantas. I flew to Auckland return with stopovers on Air New Zealand.
Which was your cheapest flight?
Which are the favorite airlines that you have been on?
Is there a particular airline that you want to travel on?
3 responses
@marguicha (224953)
• Chile
3 Sep 11
Hi Maxine,
My sister has her daughter living in London with her family and she is just leaving to go for a visit there. She told me that the cheapest way to travel to London was by Iberia, passing through Madrid first. And she also told me that many times, not all of them, it was least expensive to buy a ticket from here when my niece comes to Chile.
As I usually travel to the Americas, I like Avianca or Copa airlines as they are the cheapest now. But I check every time because sometimes other airlines have special offers. Lan, the chilean airlines, Has awesome offers but only if you buy the ticket at the most a week before departure and they have lots of requisites for them.
When and if I get better, maybe we can check together that trip to Chile. It should be a long one so you go to Machu Picchu and maybe Argentina too.
@sailorsavvy (1)
• United States
2 Sep 11
I am constantly traveling back and forth between the US and UK. So it is definitely worth looking into cheap flights.
I have found it doesn't tend to be the airport, but just lucking out and what flights you get for what price. There are certain times in the year where prices will rise anywhere from $200 to $400, sometimes even $1,000. I tend to use a website called skyscanner to find the cheapest flights when I travel to the UK.
I am very much against Heathrow Airport in London. It is large, crowded, and very disorganized. I have been lost, had luggage lost, and all and all been poorly treated by them, so it is not worth flying through them. For flying through to Scotland, instead of flying to Heathrow Airport first, I have found that Schiphol Airport is a lot cheaper. Though it takes about 2 hours longer to fly to Amsterdam first, then onto Aberdeen Airport, it usually saves me a lot of money. Anywhere from $200 to $400 dollars. Flying through KLM is nice as well, not only are the flights cheap, but the airports are nice. As I had said, Schipol is nice, and the airport in Detroit is nice as well. I always fly out from San Francisco airport, which I have had only good experience with before.
The airports I would stay away from are the large ones, London, New York, and LA, I have not had good experiences with. Cheapest way to go so far seems to be with KLM, though I have heard flying Icelandic is even cheaper; but I have yet to try it.
