Travel Resources

If you’re looking at long-term travel, permanent travel, or simply ways to make travel more accessible, we encourage you to use the following resources. All are tried and vetted over four years of trial and error, international and domestic travel, for both luxurious and shoestring trips.

All Flights:

  • Skyscanner –> in private browsingPlease conduct your searches in private browsing so your search history is not tracked. Aside from the whole personal privacy thing, searches are closely monitored by flight algorithms and the more a route is searched (i.e. the more you search, the more ‘demand’ the algorithm records and the higher the prices go). Do a cursory search of your route in private mode to gauge price and then edit your dates, again in private browsing. 

Also, I know that there’s a skyscanner.com, but I refuse to use it because it defaults to an American dollar and for some reason the flights I search are more when I go to this browser. So go to http://www.skyscanner.net and change the currency at the top right to your currency.

International Flights:

If you are (or want to be) doing a lot of international travel and you don’t want to refinance your house to afford your airfare, please check the following airline websites, in private browsing, to see if your route is available:

  • Norwegian: This is our first love because we got our one-way tickets to London for $249 on a brand new 747 Dreamliner which translates to amazing food and 100 hours of entertainment. Don’t let the name fool you – Norwegian flies all over Europe and beyond: Dubai, UAE; Istanbul, Turkey; Singapore; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Tel Aviv, Israel; and more! As of mid-2017 they fly out of a dozen US airports –

New York (John F. Kennedy – JFK)
New York / New Jersey (Newark Liberty – EWR)
Boston (BOS)
Providence / Boston (PVD)
Connecticut / Hartford Bradley (BDL)
Atlanta (ATL)
Orlando (MCO)
Fort Lauderdale (FLL)
Los Angeles (LAX)
Las Vegas (LAS)
Oakland – San Francisco (OAK)
Denver (DEN)
Seattle (SEA)

Out of Orlando (our home airport) to London is $460.

MCO-GTW

This is from Boston to London (Gatwick): $370

MCO-BOS

Denver to London Gatwick: $481DEN to GTW

Keep in mind that for long term travel or just doing a couple weeks overseas, you’re often working one way, so if you’re in Seattle for example and you want to get to Europe, you can get to Europe for $200. 

Getting the most from your flights:

 

 

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