Fly to Europe cheaper, better, and in a nicer seat.
We price the whole transatlantic market ourselves — 1,037 fares from 26 US airports, 6690 more comparing carriers on one fixed week, and 50 verified cabins — then tell you what it means. Written by someone who flies Boston to Europe for under $300 round trip, and who booked and paid for all 250+ of his own flights.
Or start with the ranking: the cheapest places to fly into in Europe, 40 cities priced from every US gateway on one day.
- Under $300
- Round trips Boston to Europe, caught through fare drops and award space using the methods on this site
- 250+ flights
- Taken over a nine-year career, every one booked and paid for by Jon himself
- 2–3 months
- Spent in Europe every year; Jon's wife is Austrian, so it is home turf
- 39 countries
- Visited in Europe alone, of 73 worldwide across five continents
Should you burn the points, or pay?
Enter what the ticket costs, what the award costs, and what you still pay in taxes. You get the cents per point you are actually getting, and a straight answer.
What the ticket costs in dollars.
The award price for the same seat.
What you still pay in cash on the award.
Sets what we compare your result to.
You are getting
2.12¢ / point
Our valuation, Chase UR
1.80¢
Good redemption. Use the points.
You are beating our valuation for this currency and saving $1,270 in cash. Book it.
Show the math
Cash fare $1,450 − award taxes $180 = $1,270 of cash avoided.
$1,270 ÷ 60,000 miles × 100 = 2.12¢ per point.
Compared against 1.80¢, our conservative valuation for Chase UR on transatlantic redemptions. Transfers 1:1 to Aeroplan and Virgin Atlantic — the two best-valued programs any transferable currency here reaches — plus Flying Blue, United and Avios. Priced above every one of them on purpose: you choose the partner after you know the route, so a flexible point is worth the best transfer for the trip in front of you rather than the average of five. Valuations last reviewed .
How this works, and where our valuations come from →
Paying cash instead?
Found a fare. Is it actually a deal?
Enter the fare and the European city, and we judge it against what we paid from 26 US airports on one day — and against your own airport, which on a thin route changes the answer entirely.
Free · 14 questions · about four minutes
Get your Europe Flight Score
Most people lose money to Europe in the same three places: the wrong card on the fare, points sitting in the wrong currency, and booking the month everyone else books. Name your route and we will price it against our own grid — what it normally costs, what counts as a deal, and which airline was cheapest into that city on the week we measured.
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Your Europe Flight Score
One number, from how you earn, what you hold, and how you book.
The card to put flights on
Named from the cards you actually carry, not a best-of list.
Your best points play
The transfer worth making from the balances you already have.
And if you name a trip
Whether your month is the expensive one, and which months are not.
Everything about getting there
Five hubs, one job: getting you across the Atlantic for less, in a seat you can stand.
Cheap Flights
Where the cheap fares actually are, by departure city and season.
41 guides
Airlines
Which airlines are cheapest, and which lose on their own routes.
23 guides
Routes
What every US-Europe route costs, and where the airport matters.
10 guides
Airports
Every US gateway and European arrival city, ranked by fare.
11 guides
Points & Miles
Conservative valuations and the transfers that reach Europe.
5 guides
What the whole market actually costs
Collected in a single day so the numbers are comparable, and refreshed monthly in one sitting. Last taken August 30, 2026.
The cheapest places in Europe are not where you have been told
Ranked by median across all 26 US gateways, never by one lucky fare. Nordics & Iceland beat Southern Europe by $80, which is the reverse of the usual advice.
- Stockholmfrom Seattle $418$617
- Reykjavikfrom New York $422$632
- Oslofrom Boston $422$638
- Copenhagenfrom Seattle $448$653
- Romefrom New York $461$669
- Zurichfrom Boston $532$672
- Barcelonafrom Boston $499$673
- Dublinfrom Boston $518$681
112/130
flag carriers lose on their own route
Priced on one fixed week from five US cities, 112 of 130 national airlines were beaten into their own hub by another carrier. Aer Lingus charged $2,229 above the cheapest way into DUB from SAN.
See every carrier priced →13/31
airlines whose cabin changes by aircraft
Same airline, same fare, different seat. On 8 of them the airframe decides whether you get direct aisle access at all; on the rest it decides the privacy door. Icelandair is the cheapest carrier we price and its business cabin is a recliner, not a bed.
Compare 465 pairs →47%
of room on London
The gap between a typical fare and the best anyone gets. Wide means an alert earns its keep; Santorini has only 13%, so waiting there mostly buys risk.
See every threshold →Every number carries the day it was observed and the method behind it. Rankings use the median across airports, never the cheapest single fare — a minimum is a fact about one airport on one day, which is why published “cheapest in Europe” lists disagree with each other. How we research and review.
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Or have someone just do it
When the trip matters more than the hobby: flight planning, points strategy, and award booking, at a published price.
Europe Flight Plan
A specific trip you already know you are taking.
$149
Points to Europe Strategy Session
Sitting on points and not sure how to spend them well.
$249
Award Booking Service
Premium cabin awards you do not want to hunt for yourself.
$200per ticket, or 15% of the cash fare saved, whichever is higher