New discount transatlantic airline: Primera!

Primera Air, an Icelandic airline, will be offering transatlantic flights from Newark/NYC and Boston to Europe starting at only $99!
These $99 flights go to Birmingham (UK), London, and Paris. If you want to see the rest of Europe, there areWowAir is having another $69 flight sale! GO GO GO!
The prices are real, no added taxes or anything. I booked one of these flights for my honeymoon ($69 San Francisco to London one-way) and it was not bad at all, really. Well, it was what you would expect, at any rate. Book ASAP (these prices will disappear within hours, most likely); fly September through November. Fly from: BOS, BWI, PIT, LAX, SFO, MIA. Fly to: Paris, London, Brussels, Edinburgh, Dublin, Stockholm, Berlin, or Copenhagen. If you're not sure about booking, you can always cancel and get a good chunk of change back. (Here's how.) For example, the $69 flight from Los Angeles to Paris has $40 of taxes and only $29 of fare, so if you buy it and then cancel and email them for a tax refund, you'll get $40 back, only losing $29 on your unused fare. You may as well book!

Remember that once you're in Europe, there are super-cheap discount airlines like Ryanair offering $5-20 flights from country to country, so it's super easy to fly into one country and out of another, giving you a 2-for-1 vacation. WowAir also gives you a free stopover in Iceland if you book a round trip flight, so if that's more your thing, try that instead!

As always, WowAir is about as no-frills as it gets. Bring your own food, water, blanket, lack of dignity, etc., and somehow do this while bringing only one tiny personal item weighing up to 10 kg. (The baggage rules change sometimes. Check 'em here.) I recommend going the punk rock route with a carry-on vest, then repacking once safely on the plane. Vague instructions here.

 really easy connections from London Stansted airport to ALL of the rest of Europe (and Morocco, too!) with prices as low as $2 (yes, that's two dollars) because Stansted is a major hub of the ultra-low-cost airline Ryanair. Both Ryanair and Primera are real no-frills airlines similar to WowAir, with no checked bag and no food included. It's looking like about $175 to come back from Europe with Primera, giving you a round-trip of as low as $274 (but probably a little more if you aren't super flexible on dates).

This would have been very convenient for me the past four years when my now-husband was living in Birmingham. Take these great discount flights because I can't!