I'll be home for Christmas. Can you hear Frank Sinatra singing? Well, whether home for you is Europe or the US, and you aren't there yet, you'll be interested in finding cheap travel to or from Europe. You may not get what you are wishing for this season! If you don't have a ticket yet, Santa may not even be able to get one into your stocking.
Airlines are busy this year and there aren't very many seats left on flights. This doesn't mean good things for the traveller looking for cheap travel. The more seats that are full, the less the airlines seem interested in filling the rest of the seats.
It is interesting that the airlines make about 94% of their profit off of only 6% of their passengers. That's right. 6 out of 100 (is that approximately the number of first class passengers? Coinqy-dink, no doubt!) passengers make up for approximately 94% of income. If they don't sell some cheap tickets at the last minute, no sweat!
If you want to hear the jing jing jingling of the bells and at least a little change left in your pockets this Christmas, you might want to stay put right where you are. That's right, maybe a Christmas staycation this year? It doesn't have to be forever, but this Christmas season, the crisis definitely seems to be over, at least for the number of travellers on airlines. Cheap Travel to Europe will be a little harder to find right now.
Having said that, if you are free to travel early in 2014, you might be able to find something closer to cheap travel to Europe. Air Lingus is competing on flights from Chicago O'Hare (ORD) to London Gatwick (GTW) for around $869. This isn't really cheap, as we have defined it before on this site (approximately $750 would be an unbelievable deal right now from the midwest to Europe), but it isn't outlandish, considering what we have seen. Looking at the otherwise dead months of March and April right now also might be a good strategy. This gives you time to plan, look for cheap fares, and plan your travel. Maybe spend St. Patrick's day in Ireland or visit the old continent during the late winter months? Seems so far away? I know, but it will be here before we know it.
After all, that's what we said last year about Christmas and now it's right around the corner. If you happen to be in Europe right now, the weather is unseasonably warm with some sunny days even forecast for London and low 50's (Fahrenheit) this week.
Maybe that means no "white Christmas" but we hope that all your Christmases are bright! All the best and here's hoping that 2014 is full of cheap travel to Europe, from Europe and in Europe.
17 December 2013
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