Fare Fables. Low and Far to Kickstart Your Next Big Story

November 2022
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When’s the best time to buy an airline ticket? When fares are low! Given inflation, here are the value buys that are as good as it gets right now…

It’s been said that people don’t buy stuff, they buy stories.

Well, I have an intriguing one to tell you today.

Carlos turned his whole travel perspective upside down (literally) with one very simple idea.

He was sick of never finding good fares on flights that met his comfort requirements to the places he wanted to go. So he figured it was time to flip the script.

He went to Google, searched for a map of the world, and printed it out. The map featured outlines of countries in black and white, which made it easy to write notes on top. Curiously, though, he turned it upside down to give himself a fresh perspective on something that’s so familiar to us all. In a way, he was seeing the world for the first time.

He creatively called it the Map Less Traveled.

Carlos then set himself on a mission to learn about places he’d not considered before. It wasn’t long before he’d covered the map with dots, circles, names, and notes on little intriguing facts that begged for some deeper investigation.

So now, when FCF shows low fares to places all round the world, they’re not just numbers to Carlos – they’re stories waiting to be learned and told. After all, travel is a distilled timeframe of experience where we set out to create our own stories. What will your next one be about?

“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God”

Kurt Vonnegut

Low-Fare Story Starters

The list of low fares below were found by FCF’s storied team of researchers. It hasn’t been a great time for low fares lately, so the digging had to go deep. But as usual, they’ve come up with lots of happy endings.

These charts are proof you can get where you want for less, and in premium cabin comfort, to boot. From there, the rest of the story is up to you.

Best Values By Region

Lowest Business Class Routes to Africa
(Typically $5,000 to $7,000+)

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Lowest Business Class Routes to Asia
(Typically $5,000 to $9,000+)

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Lowest Business Class Routes to Europe(Typically $3,500 to $5,000+)

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[["Sample Airline/s","Sample Route/s","#colspan#","Flash Fare/s Seen","Travel Month/s with Best Deals"],["American, British Airways, Iberia","Boston","Cape Town","$3,493","Dec., May, Sept., Oct."],["British Airways","Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco","Johannesburg","$3,493-$3,893","Dec. through Oct.\n"],["Delta, KLM","Boston, Chicago, Miami","Johannesburg","$3,301-$3,922","Jan. through April, July, Aug."],["Air France, Delta, KLM","Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle","Nairobi","$3,667-$3,708","Jan. through Oct.\n"]]
[["Sample Airline/s","Sample Route/s","#colspan#","Flash Fare/s Seen","Travel Month/s with Best Deals"],["Air Canada","Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Seattle, Washington, DC","Seoul","$3,895-$4,063","Dec., Feb. through Oct."],["Air Canada, All Nippon, United","\nLos Angeles","\nSaigon, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo","\n$3,386-$4,159","\nJan. through Oct.\n"],["Air Canada, Singapore","\n\nNew York","Bali, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Phuket, Seoul","$3,679-$3,733","\n\nFeb. through Oct."],["Korean","#rowspan#","Bangkok","$4,065","#rowspan#"],["\nAir Canada","Portland","\nBangkok, Seoul, Tokyo","$3,351-$3,916","Dec. through Oct."],["#rowspan#","San Francisco","#rowspan#","$3,282-$4,117","Jan. through Oct."]]
[["Sample Airline/s","Sample Route/s","#colspan#","Flash Fare Range Seen","Travel Month/s with Best Deals"],["American, British Airways","\n\n\n\nBoston","London","$2,222","Mar. through Oct.\n"],["\nAer Lingus, LOT, Lufthansa, SAS, SWISS, Turkish, United","#rowspan#","Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Birmingham, Bologna, Bordeaux, Bristol, Budapest, Dubrovnik, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, London, Lyon, Manchester, Marseille, Milan, Munich, Naples, Nice, Paris, Pisa, Prague, Rome, Venice, Verona, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb, Z\u00fcrich","\n\n$2,454-$3,165","\n\nDec. through Oct.\n"],["American, British Airways, JetBlue","\n\n\nChicago","London, Verona","$2,686-$3,236","\n\n\nNov. through Oct.\n"],["Aer Lingus, LOT, Lufthansa, SAS, SWISS, Turkish, United","#rowspan#","Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Bologna, Bordeaux, Budapest, Cologne, Dubrovnik, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Krak\u00f3w, Lyon, Manchester, Marseille, Milan, Munich, Naples, Nice, Paris, Prague, Rome, Salzburg, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb, Z\u00fcrich","\n$2,573-$3,218","#rowspan#"],["American, British Airways, JetBlue","\n\n\nDallas","London, Marseille, Paris","$2,684-$3,129","Dec. through Feb."],["Aer Lingus, Air Canada, LOT, Lufthansa, SAS, SWISS, Turkish, United","#rowspan#","\nAmsterdam, Dubrovnik, Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan, Venice","\n$2,906-$3,266","\nJan. through Oct."],["American, British Airways, JetBlue","\n\n\nHouston","London, Paris","$2,933-$3,200","Dec., Feb., March"],["Aer Lingus, Air Canada, LOT, Lufthansa, SAS, SWISS, Turkish, United","#rowspan#","\nAmsterdam, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Milan, Venice","\n$2,606-$3,070","Jan., March, April, Sept., Oct."],["American, British Airways","\n\n\nLos Angeles","Amsterdam, Paris","$3,178-$3,215","Nov., Dec."],["LOT, Lufthansa, SAS, SWISS, Turkish, United","#rowspan#","Barcelona, Bologna, Dubrovnik, Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Milan, Munich, Rome, Vienna, Zagreb, Z\u00fcrich","\n$2,791-$3,277","Dec. through April., Aug. through Oct."],["American, British Airways","\n\n\n\n\n\nMiami","Milan, Paris,","$2,579-$3,185","Nov. through Oct."],["Delta, ITA","#rowspan#","Basel, Brussels, Genoa, Turin","$3,149-$3,171","Nov. through Oct."],["Aer Lingus, LOT, Lufthansa, SAS, SWISS, Turkish, United","#rowspan#","\nFrankfurt, Geneva, Lyon, Stuttgart, Z\u00fcrich","\n$2,687-$3,229","Dec. through Oct."],["British Airways","\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew York","Bucharest, Malta","$2,684-$2,898","Dec. through Oct."],["LOT","#rowspan#","Barcelona, Berlin, Hamburg, Madrid, Munich, Oslo, Stuttgart","$2,554-$2,883","Jan. through Oct."],["\nSingapore","#rowspan#","Amsterdam, Belgrade, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hanover, Krakow, Luxembourg, Milan, Prague, Venice, Zagreb, Zurich","\n$2,243-$2,592","Jan. through May., July through Oct."],["United","#rowspan#","London, Porto","$2,541-$2,598","April through Oct."],["Aer Lingus, LOT, Lufthansa, SAS, SWISS, Turkish, United","Washington, DC","Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Birmingham, Bologna, Bristol, Budapest, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Krak\u00f3w, Lyon, Manchester, Marseille, Milan, Munich, Naples, Nice, Paris, Prague, Rome, Salzburg, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb, Z\u00fcrich","\n$2,433-$3,169","\nNov. through Oct."]]