Back in mid June, KLM Canada held a little contest that resulted in some temporarily amazing prices to Istanbul from across the country. Judging by the number of e-mails, Tweets, and Facebook messages I received, I think it's safe to say there will be thousands more Canadians than usual visiting Turkey later this year and in the spring of 2013.

I've been waiting a long time for this! Turkey has always been near the top of my list of places on this planet that I want to check out (and it's a long list). Fares are *never* cheap though, and usually hover around a minimum of $1300-$1400 roundtrip after taxes.

UPDATE:

June 12-20 and June 12-27 from Vancouver to Glasgow, Scotland just dropped to $563 roundtrip after taxes.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is the cheapest roundtrip flight ever found between Vancouver and Paris. And it's in June too.

Air Transat tends to make their biggest price cuts to Europe sometime within a month of departure. They're focused on mostly April/May cuts at the moment, but even some June prices have been slashed.

There's a huge fare war to Amsterdam (AMS) going on at the moment. You do see the occasional charter flight on Air Transat to Amsterdam that drops down to this level, but it's extremely rare to see many of the major airlines drop a price to Europe like this that affects such a large range of dates.

There's a very interesting unadvertised sale going on with Delta at the moment, to many cities in Europe that never usually go on sale.