How to search for flights from anywhere in Europe to a specific airport in the US

Try Hopper.

Get to some place like Heathrow or De Gaulle from Budapest and you should find plenty of flights.

Just getting to Europe the best and cheapest way possible is job #1. Then, you can always find connecting flights with another European airline (like Ryan). Just know their stipulations about carry on baggage etc. and potential extra fees. Target Munich or Amsterdam, but it really does vary a lot.

I love the app Hopper and use it all the time. SkyScanner and Google Flights are good too. I've also purchased annual subscriptions to FareDrop and Scott's Cheap Airfare (they're only $30-$40/year and well worth it).

Actually, the last 3 trips we've used AlphaFlightGuru. Swear they can always beat whatever I've found. You have to call and talk to someone, but they're great.

Try looking for flights out of Lisbon, Portugal. Look at Norwegian Airlines. My daughter used them this past spring for a one way flight to MSY.

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-select multicity
-enter your destination city-date
-enter departing city-date

-enter departing city-date select "nearby" and enter radius from Budapest then select cities
-enter destination city-date

this will give you a list of flights that you can filter using dropdowns

OR you can do just a one-way using the same steps

No they aren't necessarily the same price. I just tried it on Google Flights and the one-way flight from the LAX to Lisbon was more expensive than the flight from Lisbon to LAX. Don't know the reason(s).

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-select multicity
-enter your destination city-date
-enter departing city-date

-enter departing city-date select "nearby" and enter radius from Budapest then select cities
-enter destination city-date

this will give you a list of flights that you can filter using dropdowns

OR you can do just a one-way using the same steps

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Thanks..I just tried doing that and it said "journeys with origins in multiple countries are not allowed" why is this so hard to do?

I guess I just need to do it the "old fashioned" way and select the airports that you guys mentioned, and then also look at separate flights to get to those airports.

Just to warn you, the budget flights don’t usually fly from the same airport as the international flights. Similar to southwest here in the states. Now it may save you considerably I’m not sure, but I’m simply warning you you likely won’t be able to go straight from a ryanair flight onto Lufthansa or British Air.

One way flights are much more expensive than round trip on almost every airline.

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Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam and London are your best bets.

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Plus one.

I was wrong about one-way flights using this feature.

But if you input your flight itinerary using the multi-city option in the above example, you will get options from departure cities that you can then select which to research.