
These are the best budget carriers offering cheap international flights from the United States. Prices have likely changed.) The best budget international airlines from the US (Note, the example flights listed below are just that-examples based on searches done at a specific time. Here, we break down the best and worst of the budget international airlines that fly from the United States, and detail the fees they charge for "extras" like baggage, assigned seats, and meals. Sometimes there are catches, usually in the form of extra fees, but not all budget airlines are created equal. If you’re searching for flights and getting rock bottom prices, you might feel there must be a catch. It’s natural to be skeptical about some of these international budget airlines if you’ve never flown them before. Sometimes those airlines are the big name legacy carriers like American, Lufthansa, and Qantas, and sometimes they’re budget carriers-but they’re always airlines we’d recommend to our parents (and we actually like our parents).

Among the requirements: a humane schedule and availability on reputable airlines.


In fact, we only send deals that meet specific criteria. Are the deals we’re telling them about on terrible airlines with exorbitant fees? Do these cheap flights have miserable routing with four stops and six-hour layovers? Prospective members of Going often ask us if the flight alerts we send members are for flights that are any good.
