Cheap Airlines to & within Europe

If you are from the USA and you are planning on going abroad or even domestically, use STA travel.

http://www.statravel.com/cps/rde/xchg/us_division_web_live/
This site is amazing because it offers cheap selected flights for us, students, on major airlines. It is even better if you back months in advance. Once I got a ticket from the States to Paris CDG for under $300 dollars! I mean RIGHT now they are offering flights to Europe beginning at $169, flights to Asia for $440, and flights to the Oz from $702 ROUNDTRIP. You really can’t beat it. STA has branches throughout the world - but flights from the USA to go abroad are great for budget student travelers.

The second type of airlines that I want to bring up are the low-cost airlines operating in Europe. Once to get to Europe, you have a wide variety of airlines that can take you from Budapest to Rome to Dublin to Athens. You just have to know what airlines go to your desired location and you are more than half way there to your dream vacation!

EasyJet is probably the most well-known and used. It has locations throughout Europe and runs special deals occasionally for future books.
http://www.easyjet.com/en/book/index.asp
http://www.easyjet.com/EN/routemap/ - here is a map of its current routes.
You are probably wondering how cheap it REALLY is. Well I’ll do a simulation of buying a ticket for you right now.
I’m going to book a roundtrip flight from:

Paris Charles de Gaulle to Krakow

With one month booking ahead, It is possible to get a ticket for about 91 euro! Cheap! And Paris & Krakow are pretty far. So a ticket to Madrid or London would be in the 70 euro range especially if they have promotions. EasyJet is the number one airline used for cheap travel (and widely used amoung the students who attend my university).

Good airline for cheap travel to the UK or within the UK. Cheap if you book ahead, I’ve heard stories of getting flights for 1 cent (keep in mind the taxes) which can total a 1 cent book or a dollar booking to about 60 euro. If EasyJet doesn’t have it, Ryanair will!