Route guides

Flight route guides: the combinations engines miss.

For each major city pair, we publish the airports worth testing, the stopover patterns that beat the direct fare, and the open-jaw and weekday combinations SnagRid explores automatically.

3,459 mi

London New York

London → New York is the busiest premium transatlantic corridor in the world. Five London airports and three New York airports produce 15 city pairs, before you even consider stopovers, weekday shifts, or open-jaw returns.

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3,414 mi

London Dubai

London → Dubai is dominated by Emirates' high-frequency Heathrow service, but the cheapest fare on a flexible week is rarely the obvious one.

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5,456 mi

London Los Angeles

London → Los Angeles spans 5,400+ miles and 8 time zones — a route where small structural choices (open-jaw, second California airport, low-cost long-haul) swing fares dramatically.

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3,459 mi

New York London

New York → London is the highest-frequency transatlantic city pair, with three NYC airports and three London airports producing nine direct city combinations alone.

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3,635 mi

New York Paris

New York → Paris is the second-busiest US-Europe corridor. Five carriers operate the direct pair, with materially different fare structures by weekday and origin airport.

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3,635 mi

Paris New York

Paris → New York is the reverse direction of one of the world's busiest transatlantic corridors, but pricing is asymmetric — fares from CDG and ORY often diverge sharply from the JFK → CDG direction on the same week.

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3,414 mi

Dubai London

Dubai → London is one of the highest-frequency long-haul routes in the world, with Emirates, BA, Virgin, and flydubai all operating direct service.

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10,573 mi

Sydney London

Sydney → London is the canonical 'kangaroo route' — one of the longest commercial corridors in the world, where one-stop carrier and connection city choice swings fares by 30%+.

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3,640 mi

Amsterdam New York

Amsterdam → New York is dominated by KLM/Delta on the AMS → JFK pair, but cheaper combinations exist through Newark, open-jaw with London, or nearby-airport substitution.

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3,544 mi

Toronto London

Toronto → London is one of the cheapest transatlantic corridors out of Canada, with Air Canada, BA, Air Transat, and Icelandair all competing on a relatively short flight.

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