EuroCheapo's Budget Air Travel Articles

Oct 19 Hey Cheapos: You know the age-old question “when should I book a flight to get the best deal?” Is it better to book many months in advance or at the last minute? What about holidays? Recently the flight gurus over at Kayak.com looked into the matter. By sifting through a billion (with a “b”) flight » Read more

Oct 11 Are you feeling lucky, Cheapos? We’ve teamed up again with our friends over at airberlin to give away another fantastic and free roundtrip for two from New York’s JFK airport to anywhere airberlin flies in Europe! Start packing your bags, folks, because someone is about to get lucky. Why shouldn’t it be you? Did you » Read more

Apr 23 Social networks have revitalized customer/corporate contact across the travel industry — angry passengers receive immediate responses to their hasty tweets; travelers stuck on a train can expect answers within minutes to a Facebook post questioning the reason for their delay. Due to the far reach of the negative word on the web and the success » Read more

Dec 19 By Tom Meyers— A few months ago I had to make a key decision while planning a trip from Paris to Berlin. Plane or train? I could take a €50 budget flight on easyJet and be there in about two hours. Or I could take the TGV to Germany, and then board an ICE train » Read more

May 18 Last week, we looked at multi-sector hops across Arctic Norway and beach landings on Barra in our review of unusual European scheduled flights. Now we follow up with comments on some of the really small aircraft used on regular island flights around Scotland and Ireland. Shetland Several of the smaller islands in the Shetland archipelago » Read more

Apr 11 By Tom Meyers— When flying between the United States and Europe, you probably know that it’s best to pack light. After all, the less luggage you have to haul around town the better. For Cheapos, there’s one more obvious reason to keep the amount of luggage to a minimum: checked-baggage charges. Pre-”Great Recession,” many transatlantic » Read more

Apr 06 Europe’s spring airline schedules came into effect last week, so in this travel brief we take a look at what’s new in the skies over Europe for the 2011 peak season. A new airline takes off from Vienna Our prize for the zaniest airline name in the new schedules goes to People’s Viennaline, a start-up » Read more

Jan 19 Can you remember the days when booking a plane ticket was fun? That happy anticipation of a journey in the making, the prospect of stopovers in distant cities, the growing realization that for just a few dollars more it might even be possible to detour via Manchuria or Manchester. Cast back to the days of » Read more

Sep 20   How much will it really cost you to rent a car in Europe? You know that the price you see on car rental websites isn’t the final cost—as it doesn’t include insurance, gas and other incidentals. But how much are those extra charges?  On past trips, I’ve made the mistake of underestimating these other charges, imagining » Read more