Planning a vacation to Europe and doing some comparison shopping, here's a must read.
In Yes! Continental Breaks the $800 July Europe Barrier (March 29, 2009), Rick Seaney of Farecompare.com shows us instructive fare tables of Continental and American Airlines side by side and Continental comes on top with an average fare of $790 while American Airlines has an average of $916.
In both cases, he notes that the average fare come under the usual minimum of $1000 charged for RT travel during the Summer season.
The cheapest fare for Continental is New York-Dublin (or Shannon) at $455 while American's best deal is Chicago-Dublin at $651.
On the other hand, New York-Barcelona is $765 on American but costs $100 more on Continental.
In between these two , US Airways average is $868 in Rick's survey of other carriers.
According to his study, the highest average prices overall seem to be the territory of Northwest ($1084) and Air France ($1044).
Related: Barcelona $206 now, Toulouse $432 in May (Round Trip), Are Deals Back?
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