Cheap Flights to New York

shopaholicleo

Hi, am looking to go to NY in from 18th June - 30th June or therabouts. Most prices are £340 apart from Zoom. Am I likely to find anything cheaper and is Zoom that bad? I'm a student so would like to get cheapest flight poss as I will have to fork out for a visa as well. When will other sales be on? Seems silly to pay so much when I went to Hong Kong for £349 last year.

Crabman

shopaholicleo wrote: »

Hi, am looking to go to NY in from 18th June - 30th June or therabouts. Most prices are £340 apart from Zoom. Am I likely to find anything cheaper and is Zoom that bad? I'm a student so would like to get cheapest flight poss as I will have to fork out for a visa as well. When will other sales be on? Seems silly to pay so much when I went to Hong Kong for £349 last year.

Welcome to MSE - are you sure you'll need a visa? Check the USA links on the Travel Index (at the bottom), in particular the Visa Waiver Wizard which may help.

About the NY flights, check markymoo's guide to Booking an NYC Holiday and of couse the Cheap Flights article

careym

quick question out of interest guys.

If virgin, BAA and AA where all the same price to New york from Heathrow, which airline would you prefer to fly with?

Looking to go in Nov but am gonna wait and use 3 month method. Prices are all £318 ish at mo

Thanks

polarbearit

careym wrote: »

quick question out of interest guys.

If virgin, BAA and AA where all the same price to New york from Heathrow, which airline would you prefer to fly with?

Looking to go in Nov but am gonna wait and use 3 month method. Prices are all £318 ish at mo

Thanks

I'd use AA and get 15% off for mastercard holders (by quoting master at ticket office/excludes taxes)...

That said if I wasn't getting extra discount I'd weigh up whether I preferred the superior entertainment offered on Virgin (and to a lesser extent BA) or the extra space offered by AA which has a greater seat pitch!

careym

15% off and better seat pitch at aa? hmm sounds quite appealing.

I think the entertainment may out weigh the seat pitch though. I will wait a few months then bring then cost into account aswell

Thanks polarbearit

shopaholicleo

Does it say on the website about this 15% off? Which ticket office would this be?

I don't think I need a visa - yay!

M4RKM

AA no longer has any better pitch than anyone else... maybe by an inch or so, but not that much...

careym

Who do you have prefernce to fly with Markymoo if anyone? Or you just choose the cheapest?

Cheers

blindman

careym wrote: »

Who do you have prefernce to fly with Markymoo if anyone? Or you just choose the cheapest?

Cheers

If the prices are the same then:

Virgin

AA

NEVER BA :eek:

polarbearit

markymoo wrote: »

AA no longer has any better pitch than anyone else... maybe by an inch or so, but not that much...

Whilst the seat pitch isn't as good as it was, AA are 1 inch wider than BA/Virgin and 1 inch longer than BA - I could certainly tell the difference!