@sevenfaces wrote: Thank you for your help. I will check out those websites and see what i can come up with! This is amazing and so helpful i appreciate it! Any other replys or information you have for me would be great! Have a good day otherwise! If you were going to change airlines to Southwest once you get stateside, do it at the same airport if you can so that you only have to re-check your luggage, which could be also the same time when you go through customs. The obstacle will be to find the airport that has both Southwest and your Germany flights - maybe Newark, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore as opportunities? Without digging too much futher I'd say look hard at Newark. Here's the route map for Oakland with all of the available direct connections (all airlines): https://www.oaklandairport.com/airlines/route-map/ Edit: I don't see any direct flights to Germany, but surely there will be some potential connecting flights. The tip would be that a couple of popular international airports don't connect with Southwest - for Chicago the international traffic is through O'Hare while Southwest uses Midway. In NYC the international traffic goes through JFK and Newark while Southwest uses Laguardia and Newark - so don't book from Germany to O'Hare or JFK in order to transfer to Southwest flights - they aren't at the same airport.
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