How much did you pay for a ticket to israel

amother

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 6:51 pm

How much people pay on average. Does everyone get good deals?

Mollie

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 7:07 pm

Depends when you go. Summer, sukkos, direct will be about $1500 and stop over 1200.

Winter months direct $1000 and stop over anywhere from 600-900

amother

Khaki

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 8:48 pm

I paid 800 per person even for my 3yo.we have a stop adn traveling in jan

This was the absolute cheapest I found

amother

Burgundy

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 9:12 pm

We paid $1575 per ticket in August.
The good deals are usually with a stop over and with airlines that I'm not comfortable taking.

bobeli

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 9:31 pm

It all depends when you go, which airline, how long in advance, luck, sales and price mistakes.
I have paid between 300 (yes price mistake that got honored) to 1000.
Never for sukot as that only gives you 2 or 3 days to fly and is usually expensive. (Best bet is a Jewish travel agent that booked seat in advance)
But pesach, chanuka, winter, yeshiva week, etc.
Almost all that fly are normal airlines and if not sending only one girl, I will fly almost any one .
Check google flights and track prices

amother

Red

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 9:33 pm

Hmmm you haven't told us where you're flying from?

From England I've paid $200 return Very Happy

amother

Sienna

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 9:36 pm

We have gone about every other year for sukkos for the last ten years and never paid more than $900 per person. No crazy deals, we start looking a couple of months before we plan to go and eventually find something that works for us. I have no problem flying low cost airlines as long as we don't have a stop in a country with a related travel advisory. It's more important to us to go as often as we can than to travel in greater comfort.

amother

Brown

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 9:50 pm

amother [ Sienna ] wrote:

I assume this is always stopover?

amother

Azure

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 10:02 pm

I only fly direct, nyc to tlv, usually nwk, I prefer elal. I go annually to visit family, but different times of year. In may when there are sales, I book Sukkos, 850 ish- leave chol hamoed, return week after yom tov. In June I have paid under 850 for Chanuka. I just got 825 over thanksgiving week.

amother

Khaki

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 10:07 pm

amother [ Azure ] wrote:

Those are really great prices, direct and Newark!!
Do you mind sharing your travel agent?

amother

Fuchsia

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 10:12 pm

My parents and sister's family are all going this fall. They paid more than 1200/ticket.
I found, for a random week during the dead of winter, on dans deals-$636 on Virgin Atlantic, with a stopover in London (which is better than turkey).

amother

Sienna

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 10:16 pm

amother [ Brown ] wrote:

I assume this is always stopover?

I live in a US city with extremely limited direct options. So yes, always with one stop.

amother

Pumpkin

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 10:20 pm

I like using Kiwi.com, it puts together all sorts of random flights.

Right now I found 7-10 day trip (random dates) for under $500.
https://www.kiwi.com/us/search...../7-10

bobeli

Sun, Oct 06 2019, 10:27 pm

The prices I posted above are some stop over and some direct, never with elal.
A few weeks ago delta was 850 .
And yea the sales through London for 500.
If it’s not a specific date it’s should not be hard to find good deals.
We sometimes prefer the stop over