Berlin Travel Forum

Hi again!

Any suggestions for the cheapest way to fly from Los Angeles, California, USA to Berlin?

Thanks again!

Try consolidators - they offer often much better-priced tickets than you can get on-line.
Typical way to look for consolidator is to locate an immigrant community (Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Serbian) in your area and try to find whom they use. Call national airlines (all have representative in the U.S.) and ask who is the prefered travel agent - he will give you pretty good pricing.

Often flying into "lower income" market is better because the airlines price themself accordingly. For instance, flying to Budapest is usually less, than to Munich or Frankfurt - even if it is the same plane!

Prices will very wildly, so you will need some patience. And also you will need to be flexible and perhaps use train from some "oddball" East European city. We saved about $500 that way (a train ticket is usually under 50 Euro)

An other trick is to use condor (www.condor.com) and get the "german railway" destination because they give you a train ticket from Frankfurt to anywhere in Germany for $30 extra. Condor flies from Las Vegas.

Further you can try Air Tahiti Nui (flies LAX->Paris), Air New Zealand (flies to Frankfurt) and Air India (flies to Frankfurt). Air India is esp. interesting because there is a large Indian comunity in the U.S.

And of course forget flying Frankfurt->Berlin, the train could be faster and cheaper.

Thanks!

You've given me a lot to chew on. I'll check out all those reources.