Cheaper summer tickets to Russia

[Joseph Alan Carmack]

Greetings!

I am headed for Moscow this summer. The cheapest roundtrip ticket source I
have found is the ticket consolidators. You can search the web
under "ticket consolidator(s)" for a listing. I went with TISS.COM and
found a round trip flight on Lufthansa for $833 + tax ($910 total). Other
ticket consolidators I checked were slightly higher. Last week I checked
TISS.COM again and they still seem to have tickets for this price; my
origination will be Dallas/Ft Worth and destination SVO, with one stop in
Frankfurt.

I imagine if you call a regular travel agent or an airline, or go through
some reservation program like SAABR, you will probably find that tickets
for summer travel to Russia starting at $1200-1300 (on Delta, etc.), but
that does not include tax. Plus, with fuel costs increasing I imagine
tickets aren't getting any cheaper. (The ticket consolidators don't have to
worry about rising fuel costs because they bought bunches of tickets on
airlines long before the cost of fuel started rising.)

This is not an endorsement of ticket consolidators or of TISS.COM but a
source of information for fellow travellers to Moscow. And, of course, if
anyone has found cheaper fares than I did, be sure to let us all know! :-)

Joseph Alan Carmack
MA-TEFL, UT/Austin

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