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 <li>'''If you need to change or cancel your flight, you’ll need to pay separate fees'''. With a single reservation, you’ll be charged a single change or cancellation fee. With separately booked tickets, you’ll need to pay each airline separately.</li>
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-'''Another approach is to directly look for fares from discount airlines that you know about'''. For example, you may know that Condor Airlines offers good rates to Europe, so you can see what is available on their website or by entering likely city pairs into Google Flights.
+'''Another approach is to directly look for fares from discount airlines that you know about'''. For example, you may know that [//www.condor.com Condor Airlines], [//www.flylevel.com Level Airlines], and [//www.icelandair.us Icelandair] often offer lower-than-normal fares to Europe, so you can see what is available on their website or by entering likely city pairs into Google Flights.
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 Depending on where you live, it can be hard to find less expensive international flights from your home airport. Online booking tools often won't be able to show tickets that take advantage of cheap international flights from other cities, particularly on airlines that aren't part of the big alliances.
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-<li>'''In the most common scenario, you can make your own way to a "gateway" city'''. For international flights, fares from some cities can be much less expensive than fares from other cities. Since the cheapest international flights are often with airlines that don't have any domestic partnerships, you won't find these fares when you do a normal search. To get a less expensive overall fare, you’ll need to book two separate flights—a domestic flight to the "gateway" city and an inexpensive international flight from there.</li>
+<li>'''In the most common scenario, you can make your own way to a "gateway" city'''. For international flights, fares from some cities can be much less expensive than fares from other cities. Since the cheapest international flights are sometimes with airlines that don't have any domestic partnerships, you won't find these fares when you do a normal search. To get a less expensive overall fare, you’ll need to book two separate flights—a domestic flight to the "gateway" city and an inexpensive international flight from there.</li>
-For example, rather than trying to book directly from Salt Lake City to Europe, you’d book a "positioning flight" from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, New York, Chicago, or Dallas; and then book a cheap flight to Europe from one of those cities. If you tried booking the full trip, the booking engine probably wouldn't check the potentially low-cost combination of flights on Delta and Norwegian Airlines.
+For example, rather than trying to book directly from Salt Lake City to Europe, you’d book a "positioning flight" from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, New York, Chicago, or Dallas; and then book a cheap flight to Europe from one of those cities. If you tried booking the full trip, the booking engine probably wouldn't check the potentially low-cost combination of flights on Delta and Condor Airlines.
 This same strategy can also be used when you are traveling to Asia, South America, or other international destinations, although the gateway cities will often differ.
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 When you are flying internationally, the key flight is the one that gets you across the ocean.
-Due to arrival of new discount airlines, transoceanic flights to Europe have dropped significantly in price. Prices to Asia have dropped due to increased competition from expanding Chinese airlines. Not only do the flights on these new airlines cost much less than what was common a few years ago, they have forced down the prices from more traditional airlines.
+Unfortunately, the Covid pandemic eliminated most transatlantic flights from discount operators, such as Norwegian. But fares from the more traditional carriers are still lower than they used to be. Increased competition from expanding Chinese airlines have significantly dropped prices to many parts of Asia.
 While it is always considerably better to fly directly to where you want to go, don’t be overly concerned whether a discount airline offers tickets directly to the specific city you want to visit in Europe or Asia. Once you’ve found a good price to get you across the ocean, you can often tack-on additional low-priced tickets as necessary.
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-'''Another approach is to directly look for fares from discount airlines that you know about'''. For example, you may know that Norwegian Airlines offers great rates to Europe, so you can see what is available on their website or by entering likely city pairs into Google Flights.
+'''Another approach is to directly look for fares from discount airlines that you know about'''. For example, you may know that Condor Airlines offers good rates to Europe, so you can see what is available on their website or by entering likely city pairs into Google Flights.
 For example, here’s a calendar view of Norwegian Airline flights in the summer of 2018, from Los Angeles to Copenhagen.

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	So if you can't get a cheap flight directly to your destination, you can purchase the cheapest convenient flight to a “hub” airport in that region of the world and then a separate inexpensive flight to your final destination.		So if you can't get a cheap flight directly to your destination, you can purchase the cheapest convenient flight to a “hub” airport in that region of the world and then a separate inexpensive flight to your final destination.
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	For example, let’s say you want to travel from Atlanta to Prague in April. Airfares directly to Prague are around $1,300. But you can fly nonstop to London from Atlanta for $760 and buy a separate nonstop to Prague on Smart Wings for $80. While you are at it, you can spend a few extra days visiting London. And, of course, you can add additional destinations or fly home from a nearby city such as Warsaw.		For example, let’s say you want to travel from Atlanta to Prague in April. Airfares directly to Prague are around $1,300. But you can fly nonstop to London from Atlanta for $760 and buy a separate nonstop to Prague on Smart Wings for $80. While you are at it, you can spend a few extra days visiting London. And, of course, you can add additional destinations or fly home from a nearby city such as Warsaw.