Cheap Flights To Taiwan

Well Jess just bought her ticket to Taiwan. On short notice before Christmas- that's an expensive ticket, well over what I paid for my first trip, which was around $1100 US. So I decided its probably a good idea to start looking for a ticket.

If I have a flight date set to august or September I think it will motivate me even more to get my act together. I have 2 freelance things going but I still don't have an everyday job. I think I said before I wanted to get together 4 - 6 thousand. I think the minimum I would want to go with would be 3k. I wanted to have at least 1k if I need to make an escape flight. I know a lot of people have come to Taiwan with basically nothing and been successful but I just don't like to risk things that way.

So I looked on Travelocity, Expedia, and Priceline for the prices in September and august. The winning price I found was on Priceline.com for Monday, September 17th 2007 - for $665 (one-way) from BWI (Baltimore) to TPE (Taipei.)

It seems that within July - September you get a range from around $700 - $1000 for a one way ticket. Monday flights seem to be cheapest and really, cheap is all I care about in this case.

Another thing that's cool is the $665 flight only stops once, in Korea. Last time we stopped in Chicago and in Japan, so this will be a different route. I can add another country to my list (although I know it barely counts.) Well anyway, I still have enough to buy the ticket right now but if I don't hurry up and start earning some real money I won't be able to get to my goal savings in time for September.

I just need to get more applications out- I have done a few, but they were longshots. Gotta keep thinking of my goals!