I thought i would post this, I was searching for flights for 28th June, I looked on www.ba.com website and it was £596.00 one way to Atlanta, I then checked on www.travelocity.co.uk and the exact same flight was £495.40 £100 cheaper.

Well thanks, I will certainly try the site when my time comes to book the flights

Another good one is Kayak.com / kayak.co.uk

www.vayama.com is another good one.

ebookers are extremely good too!

How much was the return?

sorry not sure was only looking for one way flights.

I know from Delta through JFK we've found roundtrip fares for about 1000 US. Might have to glance at these and see if it is cheaper. Biggest thing for us is that he comes through JFK.

I was going to do that but couldnt see the point if they stamp expires before ead comes through.

We can because we are marrying 3days after he gets here and sending off the AOS package that next day (all forms are already together that we can put together). Realistically (barring any major issues) he should receive his perm EAD before the temp one expires. Again, this is our hope.

Thats great, good luck with that.

Returns are usually cheaper.

returns are cheaper. theres no point in getting one way even if you dont use the other ticket your saving.. also sidestep.com is another good 1.. I found a flight from heathrow to jfk or newark for $600 return.

just found roundtrip from MAN to AUS (with a stop in JFK) for the day he wants for 432.00 cheaper than what we'd been looking at.

Sarah found a nonstop round trip from Heathrow to Cincy for around 550 pounds. Travel date is from Sept 1st to Sept 30th.

Wow thats Great!

Try sidestep.com. It's the most comprehensive - recommended by Wall Street Journal.

hmmm sidestep and Kayak seem to be the same site, interesting.

Aer lingus have some good deals later in the year to Ohare and the NY area

I think BA are quality to fly with and would more than likely choose to fly with them

Yes I agree, they are more comfortable than others Ive flown with for sure.

I'd take virgin over BA any day They're much nicer, better in flight entertainment, more comfortable. And they don't seem to lose planeloads of luggage like BA

Depends where your flying to and from i guess, never had my luggage lost but know people that have on virgin;

I always flew with BA.. almost every time the plane was quite empty and i got to sit where ever I liked and even lay across the 3 seats. then our last BA plane we booked got canceled and their call line was closed so we had no way to find out what to do.. they were nice enough to put us on Virgin.. then BA started to have strikes so we switched to Virgin since then but the last Virgin flight I took wasn't near as nice as BA. both going and coming home were about 2 hours delayed! annoying.. probably going back to BA for his last flight home but trying to avoid heathrow because they're losing tons of baggage these days and travelers insurance doesn't cover it any more!

Yes I agree, Il fly BA home to Jay, and I think there luggage allowance is good, but it may be the same as others not sure. I have to fly into Atlanta and they only go from Gatwick, now that is a pain lol.

We've used all sorts of different search sites (Travelocity, Opodo, etc) to find which airlines have what flights scheduled from Heathrow/Gatwick to NYC and for how much... but have never failed to get the cheapest rate by then booking directly through the airline website itself.

We've recently used BA, Continental and American. Never managed to get a Virgin flight.
He's of course happy when BA comes in the cheapest.

Well that post i did earlier was for the same BA flight but £100 cheaper if booked though travelocity!!

Try www.flyzoom.com

they fly from London Gatwick to Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Halifax, Montreal, Fort Lauderdale, Winnipeg, Bermuda, New York, San Diego.

We found the price to be good with these into New York, only problem is you have to book another flight with another airline once you get to New York, we used JetBlue to fly from New York to Maine.

Hey all,

This is the first time i've posted here as this is my fiances account but I thought I would tell you the cheapest way I have found to fly. A lot people don't know you can book though the continental website and buy flights from the UK to the US and other parts of the world.

So far my prices have smashed all the above with £335 a full round trip which I will just try and sell the ticket back to continental if they want it. Either way, a single trip would have cost me around £550 or so.

you can book though www.continental.com/uk

Also to drop the price in fairs as if your going one way do the return flight but make sure you come back on a Thursday and fly out on a Monday. While messing around with the website and dates we worked out the best way to keep ticket prices low. Seems Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays are all expensive, also leave around a 2 week gap in the return flight and the prices will drop me.

One thing that did amaze me about the prices of the these tickets were they were only booked 2 weeks before I am flying out. Now that fuel prices have gone up i'm not sure if it's affected the prices majority but that's my suggestion.

Oh one other thing, there is a transfer in the middle of the flight but if you can put up with that the prices will be much lower than a full long haul flight.

Hope this is helpful
- Chris

I was just looking ahead and to see what flights i could get for around September. I got a price which is one way Stansted - JFK $287 using vayama.com Then a flight from JFK - Atlanta or Charlotte $115 using cheaptickets.com. Thats around $400 for a one way flight. Bonus is the cheap flight into JFK if anyone wishes getting the passport stamped for EAD.

I always use www.priceline.com or www.travelocity.com when planning my trips. For some reason, the other sites seems to choose the highest fares. Priceline seems to always be a few dollars less than Travelocity, however. Plus, of course, it also depends on all the other factors such as when, where, time, etc...

I flew (return) Gatwick to Atlanta direct with BA in September and it cost me £300

That was with STA Travel, Ebookers have always saved me quite a bit considering the prices that the airlines charge direct from their websites - scandalous! I haven't allowed myself to look into my final flight yet, who knows if it will even be this year! (ha I'm having an impatient day )

Bex xxx

I will fly ba if possible on my flight, because I think their luggage allowance is pretty good too.

We just booked my ticket for June on BA from Heathrow to San Francisco for £326! Great price considering Virgin wanted £540! And yes, BA allows 70lbs per bag until later this summer when it goes down to 50lbs.

Kris is looking at Continental.. we've given up on trying to go through JFK at this point.. he found fares out the door for 400. not too bad

that's exactly what we did.. gave up JFK and went for Continental. got his flight for $580 .. but I think he's only allowed 1 checked bag! but it's only $25 for a second!

I am looking at flights end of june, ba £446 baggage allowance 70lb, I dropped the jfk thing too, not worth the extra money and hey ho the time to adjust will be great before working again.

Darren's probably leaving at the end of June too!!! And he's finding that airfares are becoming prohibitively expensive...

I'v been reading up on the EAD stamp for K-1's, and finding out that it's not really necessary. I'm calling up my local office to get the scoop on that, but that would make things so much easier if he could fly directly into Orlando!!!

Yep dawn it would, just a heads up, in september jay came here and then I decided to go back with him for a month, i booked my flight 2 days before and got a return ticket on ba for £300. if you can do it like that its a big saving.

yeah if you're up for a risk the tickets are usually cheaper if you buy them real close to the time you're going. exactly 2 weeks before you go seems to be cheaper too.

From what I've read of the EAD stamp doesn't make a whole lot of difference. That's even if you get it, as its not guaranteed you will.

I did look at going thro JFK. but for the extra few hundred dollars, it didn't seem worth it.

Hello..........Ive always had good luck with airfare.com

They seem to flucuate in their prices and when they put tickets on sale......boy do they go fast.

Try checking there......dont know if it will do you any good or not but worth a peek I think.

Its from the US side though going international......so not sure if thats what you are looking for or
not but perhaps it could help someone else going from USA to where ever.....

Sharri

Would be interested to know what you find out! I was hoping to do some temp office work just to get a feel for things (as well as providing a little extra cash) before my EAD comes through, but have found that going from Bristol through JFK and then on to Kansas City just isn't workable.

Well... it works if I don't mind going from Bristol to Amsterdam to JFK then to some other place like Memphis before getting to Kansas City. I even looked at using the Greyhound or something similar and it's just not workable with the timings (not to mention being a horrendous journey).

But if I fly through EWR I can go straight from Bristol to there and then straight on to Kansas City.

GRRRRRRRRR

Fyi.. for Continental: Economy Class - International - Europe, Micronesia, Middle East and Asia 2 Checked Bags Each bag at a maximum 50 lbs (23 kg) and 62 linear inches (157 cm) (total length + width + height)

so 2 bags

Thanks.. I was confused!