Travel advice: cheap flights to the US Telegraph.co.uk
For departures during the peak school holiday weeks in late July and most of August, the situation is not quite so rosy. The cheapest return to New York on a direct flight then will set you back about £500. However, there is little logic to air fares from the customer's point of view, and you can currently book tickets on the much longer flights to Los Angeles or San Francisco for considerably less than this (see below), or you could wait until late August and save hundreds of pounds.
Here is my guide to getting the best value this summer.
Low-fare tactics
Travel late
If you take your holidays after August 22, fares drop sharply – typically by
£200 a head. This still leaves you two weeks before most schools go back in
the week of September 7, and will save a family of five £1,000 on the cost
of travel. For example, the cheapest return from London to Miami currently
on offer through Trailfinders for travel until August 21 is £539 (via
Amsterdam with KLM/Martinair). But travel on August 22, and Trailfinders can
book you a return with Continental via Newark for £325. To Los Angeles or
San Francisco you would have to pay £495 with US Airways (from Gatwick via
Charlotte) for the first weeks of the holidays, but from August 22 the
same routes with the same airline cost from £295.
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