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Summer Vacation 2019: Inexpensive Airfares?

If you’re planning your summer vacation now and looking for inexpensive airfares, you might find a few to European cities.

One reason is that because of uncertainty and fear over Brexit, many folks in the United Kingdom and in Europe in general have postponed travel plans or have canceled them.

And what’s the result? What would have been their return seats home from the United States are now empty and can be your outbound seats there.

But the deals aren’t limited to Europe. Excess capacity on a number of fast growing Asian airlines has led to some ridiculously low round-trip airfares from the United States.

How about a $376 round-trip fare between Los Angeles and Shanghai or $633 for a flight from Boston to Beijing?

And in many cases, the deals are valid through September 30th.