Friday, August 17, 2018

Toronto/Chicago/Detroit to Europe - Sampling of sub-$500 round trip fares

This post is a compilation of good airfare prices from airports within a 5 hour drive of Grand Rapids MI:  Chicago O'Hare (ORD), Detroit (DTW), Toronto (YYZ), Pittsburgh (PIT), Cleveland (CLE).

This post shows how plentiful that sub-$500 roundtrip airfares to Europe are, at various times of the year.


European cities with sub-$500 fares include:

  • Munich (MUC)
  • Dublin (DUB)
  • Frankfurt (FRA)
  • London Heathrow (LHR)
  • Amsterdam (AMS)
  • Lisbon (LIS)
  • Porto (OPO)
  • Faro (FAO)
  • Barcelona (BCN)
  • Madrid (MAD)
  • Rome (FCO)
  • Milan (MXP)
  • Reykjavik (KEF)
  • Oslo (OSL)
  • Paris (CDG)
  • Cork, Ireland (ORK)
None of these current airfares are part of any advertised 'sale.'  Prices are just very competitive to Europe and these are just examples.

Portugal:  TAP Portugal is a Portuguese airline that flies nonstop from Toronto (YYZ) to Lisbon (LIS) and 1-stop to Porto (OPO) and Faro (FAO).  TAP has very good prices to Portugal for many different times of year.

Iceland:  Air Canada and Delta are offering very cheap fares to Reykjavik (KEF), in apparent response to WOW Air and Icelandair offering consistently cheap fares to KEF from DTW/ORD/PIT.


Fall 2018:  Sun Oct 7 - Mon Oct 15.  Detroit to Barcelona $445+  1-stop
Star Alliance airlines (United, Lufthansa, Air Canada, etc) (also $328 roundtrip Chicago to BCN on WOW Air)


Late Fall 2018:  Sun Nov 11 - Tues Nov 20.  Various cities < $450
Many of the cheapest flights here are on Icelandair or WOW Air, with 1-stop connections in KEF.

  • ORD-DUB $309 (WOW Air) $373 (Icelandair)
  • ORD-AMS $380 (WOW Air)
  • YYZ-AMS $406 (WOWAir)
  • ORD-MUC $407 (Icelandair) 
  • ORD-LHR $424 (Icelandair)
  • DTW-BCN $448 (Air Canada) $472 (Lufthansa)
  • DTW-DUB $450 (United) $480 (Lufthansa)
  • YYZ-CDG $406 (WOW Air) $411 (Icelandair)

  • ORD-CPH $332 (Icelandair) $439 (Swiss) $444 (United/Lufthansa) $453 (Austrian)
  • ORD-OSL $349 (Icelandair)
  • YYZ-AMS $383 (WOW Air)
  • ORD-HEL $357 (Icelandair)
  • ORD-AMS $361 (Icelandair)
Year-end Fri Dec 7 - Sun Dec 16.  $356-$400 various cities
YYZ-KEF $356 (Icelandair) nonstop $472 (Delta) 1-stop
DTW-KEF $360 (WOW Air) nonstop
PIT-KEF $399 (Delta) 1-stop
ORD-CPH $412 (Icelandair) $466 (Swiss) $471 (Lufthansa)
ORD-LHR $420 (Icelandair)

Spring Break 2019:  Sat Mar 30 - Sun Apr 7. Nonstop Toronto to Lisbon $502. 1-stop Porto $501
A couple of flights from Detroit in the $550 range sprinkled in here also

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