Help - USA East Coast July

[candoo]

Having a nightmare trying to find a fare to BOS, EWR or JFK below £500. Travelling Mid-July and need to be there for w.c. 18th July but am flexible about arrival and departure (2 or 3 days either way)

Tried all the usual web suspects but having no joy.

Any ideas, also why is it suddenly sooo expensive?

Cheers for any help.

[zed3]

It's a strange thing called the summer holiday season , attacks every year between June and early September causing ticket prices to steeply rise because people want to buy them . Strange but still no cure after years of research !

[candoo]

Zed3 - Nah don't buy it flew last summer same'ish time for under £300.

Maybe was just lucky then!

Come to think of it flew to Boston as well in September for much less than £300.

[MarkD]

Try travelocity.co.uk and enter LON to NYC (giving you all airports in both dests.)

Swiss had the lowest fare but wouldn't confirm the test dates I tried.

Ba.com won't go lower than 554 ex LHR or MAN to BOS or JFK

Aer Lingus (aerlingus.com) quotes LHR-SNN-BOS-SNN-LHR out 16.7 back 23.7 for 500.85 stg. (and Shannon has US immigration preclearance) - you could try looking for LHR-JFK too but you might have to move back/forward days to get the best fare.

[edited - had a look at JFK, out 14th back 26th 450GBP]

[candoo]

Have, at last, found a good deal out on the 14th to JFK back on the 21st. All in for £278.00.

Flying with Kuwaiti Airways - anyone had any experience with this carrier?

Comments, as always, appreciated.

[Avman]

If you're willing to fly via a mainland European hub, you might find good deals with LH, AF, IB etc. I haven't checked though.

[zed3]

candoo.....never flown them but it's orange juice out and back . No alcohol allowed .

[Globaliser]

Can you take your own bottle of, um, "water" with you, and use it to, um, "dilute" the orange juice? Seems to work on other similar carriers.

[Doors to Automatic]

Have you tried Air India?

I flew with them in October for £1000 business class and would highly recommend them. I even got a cockpit visit en route (!)

[candoo]

DtA

Was my first port of call on a recommendation, however website never seems to work and I couldn't be doing with a trip down Southall!

Still have booked with the Kuwaiti guys so will report after the event.

[Final 3 Greens]

Candoo

Haven't flown with Kuwait, but friends who have say its fine.

DtA

I agree about AI, have used them to JFK in J and its great so long as you don't want PTV or a full entertainment experience (I don't.)

Great curries too

[Doors to Automatic]

Final 3 Greens

I think they now have personal DVD players with a raft of recent movies.

Personally I didn't bother as the flight was fairly short and I spent most of it talking to (and drinking with) the chap sat next to me.

Candoo

Try Expedia, Travelocity and Opodo and see if AI comes up - if not I would just call them rather than using their website (It didn't work for me either!)

[candoo]

Got confirmation of Kuwaiti flight but they ask if I have any Israeli stamps in my passport - erm yes I do!

What happens now should I trash this passport and get a new one or what?