Air Travel In Europe

[Tim Kehres]

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I am starting to plan a trip for a group to Europe in the June/July period.
It looks like we will need to do a fair amount of air travel once we get
over. I am told that air fares within Europe are quite expensive. If
anyone knows of any good travel agents, airlines or whatever, it would be
greately apprecieated. The countries we plan to visit are Denmark,
West Germany, Italy, and Greece.

Tim Kehres
Control Data Corporaton / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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[Marco Ariano]

Two of the best (read cheap) places in Europe to buy airline tickets are London
and Athens. I don't know much about London but in Athens there are a
couple blocks in the downtown (whatever that means) just swarming with
cut-rate (-throat) places. (The streets are Nik.. something and G..
something I think. Let's Go! mentions them) I went to 20+ of them
before buying a ticket to London from the last one.

By no means are they all reputable establishments so shop around.
Several are East Bloc airlines looking for hard Western currency. I
suggest getting a transit visa before flying one of these even though
some people will say you don't need one.

Make sure to get an ISIC (if possible). For the cheapest flights you
*must* be a student to beat some loophole in international regulations. It
saved me $30-70 at least.

Buyer beware. (And I won't even _begin_ to talk about Athens' airport.
Can you say 'pandemonium'? :-)

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