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.
This week I looked at a lot of my classmates websites to see where they went and when and what companies they were using. I noticed a couple of classmates using Kiwi and I decided to give it a try and it seemed to help quite a bit! I also used Hopper again to look at their recommended dates of travel for different countries, because even though this was provided by Kiwi the prices posted weren't always the actual lowest prices they had. Flying to Africa was the most expensive once again with the most stops and switching planes, however I was able to bring the price down about $1,000!
I tried 3 week dates between March 1st and June 1st as after the first week I learned these time periods are the best and anytime after June 1st tends to sky rocket in price. With April and May being the cheapest months out of all of them. I tried all of my past countries as well as the new ones I found to be much cheaper! Including that Paris was cheaper than Dublin, Port of Spain was cheaper than any other South American country, and that Tangier was cheaper than Casablanca. However Beijing was still the cheapest out of any place in Asia.
Europe: $537.33
Asia: $459.64
South America:$479.07
Africa: $690.55
Total price: $2,166.59
Submitted by Whitney Beets on 2/20/2020.