Fly to Europe from the U.S. for less than $100

However there’s a catch: The airfares can be accessible solely as a part of a flash sale from Sept. 26 via Oct. 3, and the airline isn’t revealing what number of can be found. Nonetheless, it’s a part of a rising development with new low-cost carriers competing for passengers.

A budget flights are PLAY’s primary airfare, which permits passengers to deliver only one small private merchandise like a purse that may match underneath the seat. The rest—full-size carry-ons or onboard foods and drinks together with water—incurs a further cost, beginning at round $49 for carry-on luggage and precedence boarding. There aren’t in-flight leisure kits or Wi-Fi so don’t count on to make amends for the most recent film releases or get a lot work finished.

PLAY manages to supply the low fares by flying to smaller airports that supply an alternative choice to the continent’s principal hubs. Flights to London land in Stansted, 40 miles from central London, versus the primary hub of Heathrow, which is 14 miles away. New York flights go away from New York Stewart Worldwide Airport, some 70 miles north of Instances Sq. in Orange County, as an alternative of JFK or LaGuardia. And all of PLAY’s flights are on narrowbody Airbus plane from the A320 household in 3-3 seat formations, with layovers at Keflavik airport in Reykjavik, the place the airline relies. For some, that could be an excuse to increase the layover and switch it from inconvenience to alternative, particularly as Iceland prepares for a winter of robust seismic exercise that would result in significantly vivid shows of the northern lights this yr.

The flash sale comes as a handful of recent low-cost carriers look to interrupt into long-haul routes and jostle for model consciousness and market share. PLAY itself is a comparatively new airline, established in 2019 and debuting its first transatlantic flights in 2022. Norse Atlantic Airways, whose first flight took off from Oslo to New York in June 2022, can be providing tickets from New York to Berlin beginning at $119 this October. Norse Atlantic was unwilling to substantiate the precise variety of tickets accessible at these low costs, however on the time of writing, there have been easy-to-find seats accessible for $123.

Moreover, US provider JetBlue Airways Corp. began working flights between New York and London in 2021, and added service to and from Paris in 2023, and Dublin and Edinburgh this yr. And naturally primary financial system fares have turn out to be a mainstay of legacy carriers as effectively in recent times, providing reductions to flyers prepared to go with out facilities.

All that factors to a panorama the place quickly sufficient it gained’t take a fare sale to cross the Atlantic for underneath $200, even when it means packing gentle and coughing up a couple of bucks for that onboard soda.