Right now, there is a great fare to Europe from the West Coast.
You can fly to Stockholm from San Francisco for $550.
The Flight Deal has all the details.
Scandinavian Airlines – $547: San Francisco – Stockholm, Sweden. Roundtrip, including all Taxes
I subscribe to the Flight Deals tweets and check them pretty often.
I can jump on fares when there’s still lots of availability and I don’t miss out on the deals I want to take advantage of.
I’ve shared my process of “subscribing†to great fares.
This process involves signing up for twitter. Even if you won’t be an active user of twitter, it’s a good idea to have an account to take advantage of deals on contests in general.
You can see my post on this here.
I recommend following them even if you aren’t in those areas because they are gateway cities. There’s a lot of good international deals–worth the effort flying out to the gateway.