Least expensive air travel from Omaha to four continents - Europe, Asia, South America and Africa.
This is somewhat of a competition. I give extra points for the person with the least total airfare to all of these continents. All airfares must be roundtrip from Omaha, and must for be a three-week period from now until Sept. 1. It can be two different airlines, in which case you would present two different graphic files. The timing must be such that you can make the connection. Provide at least 3 hours. If the connection has you spending the night at the airport, you must include the cost of a hotel.
Generally, the least expensive fares to these destinations are from coastal cities in the US, like LA and New York. In order to get the lowest fare, you need to find the least expensive coastal city and the least expensive flight from Omaha to that city. Sites like Kayak and Expedia won't do this automatically. There may be some ground transportation involved in transferring to a nearby airport. Include the ground transportation cost and associated graphics. Bigger cities have multiple airports so don't get confused. New York, for example, has five airports: JFK, LaGuardia, Newark, White Plains, and Newburgh. Only three offer international flights. The cheapest flights are often from the smaller airports that charge a lesser fee for landing.
You don't need to check luggage but you do need to include a carry-on bag.
Prices vary widely during this period. They also vary by day of the week. You must present screenshots of the airfare with sufficient detail to verify the dates, connections, and price - including taxes. Use only commercial airlines - you can't use military aircraft or family connections with commercial companies. The flight leaves from Omaha – you can't drive to another city.
The websites I used were Travelocity, Expedia, Skyscanner, Google flights, Southwest airlines, Delta, American Airlines, Lowerfares.com, and British Airways,
I tried several different three-week periods as I got closer to September fees were quite higher than March or April. So I focused mostly on the period from April 9th to April 30th. . And the best rates did seem to be on Tuesdays so that was where I concentrated my searches. After trying a bunch of different combination I was only able to reduce my initial cost around $52.92.
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Europe: $598.83_______
Asia: $$646.19________
South America: $586.72_______
Africa: $948.43________
Total price $2,780.17
Submitted by Cory Lewis on 2/15/2019.