Hello!

My husband and I are planning on using our flight benefits in July to take a trip to Europe, and I found this site while doing research for the trip.

We've never used our standby benefits to fly international (nor have we ever been to Europe), and I'm kind of nervous about trying it. So, I'm hoping to find some helpful information on this site. We have standby benefits for Delta, US Airways, and United.

Right now, we're planning on taking our trip the third week of July. We're still pretty open about where we want to go, but we're thinking northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, or around that area. He'd also love to go to France (the Tour de France will be going on, so we're not sure how possible that would be). I'd really like to do an organized escorted tour where most of the travel plans are taken care of, but I don't know how feasible that is with flying standby.

Anyway, we'd really appreciate any tips/tricks on flying standby into/out of Europe or general Europe tips as well. Suggestions on threads that I should read would also be appreciated!

Thanks!