Credit cards like Amex, rewards points, anyone take advantage of that?

[RedPill]

$220 roundtrip, actually, on Northwest. i assumed you're headed home at some point.

Detroit and Minneapolis are both Northwest hubs, therefore cheap tickets between them.

 

[Throttle]

Detroit and Minneapolis are both Northwest hubs, therefore cheap tickets between them.

exactly.

for cheap domestic tickets I always use Farecast.com to find 'em, then book with the airline itself online. Also, if I know that one endpoint is a Southwest hub, I check them too, since they don't usually show up in aggregators (for example, I fly into BWI fairly often).

unfortunately I don't know jack about international flights -- the price has always kept me out of that market.

 

[Throttle]

BTW--my best guess would be to use orbitz.com, and if it's a single carrier flight, book with the airline itself. I found Northwest flights with 1 stop in Amsterdam for about $1k, but it would depend on travel dates & where you need to land in Finland (I guessed Helsinki). FYI, my understanding is that fares to Europe peak during the summer and crash during the winter--given Scandanavian winters, I'd guess the effect is even more pronounced

 

[Oxide]

****. Anyone got a private plane I can use? I promise you many swedish girls in return.