Recommendations non-stop flights Seattle to Europe

I like Schiphol airport better than DeGaulle. But Paris is closer to Tuscany. Direct connection is also to Frankfurt and London. Delta to Amsterdam, Air France to Paris, Lufthansa to Frankfurt, British Airways to London.

Hi Anne, I live in the Seattle area and have flown on both the Amsterdam & Paris non-stops from Seattle. Our preference is Paris (CDG), but I know many prefer the Amsterdam airport for connections.

Since the closest non-stop would be Frankfurt, and that would still be 10 hours of train travel to be in Florence, I would recommend flying to the specific area where you want to be. There's a Delta flight that's Seattle-to-Paris-to-Venice; leaves at 1pm, and arrives in Venice at noon after a 2-hour layover in Paris. (You will want the two hours to go through the international transfer.) Venice is wonderful, and you could enjoy it and Verona, for example, before heading to Tuscany.

We have flown from Seattle to Europe every summer for 12 of the last 13 years. We use to always fly SAS but they stopped flying out of Seattle. Then we started flying KLM (Delta) to Amsterdam, Air France (Delta) to Paris , and Lufthansa to Frankfurt. We book our flights from Seattle to the airlines hub in Europe and then onto our final destination with the same airline. We always seem to spend a week or so in the area of the airlines hub before flying on to our final destination which is as close as we can get to our yearly RS tour. We retrace this route coming home after the tour is over and after spending some time somewhere else near the tour's end.
We booked KLM this last summer only to find out that we would be flying on Delta for the first time ever. We had a good experience flying Delta. This coming summer we booked on Air France who have put us on Delta between Seattle and Paris, and then later on AF from Paris to Bulgaria. When checking the prices before making those reservations, we found the airlines to be very close in price. We booked that flight about 10 days ago and when checking the prices later found them to have gone up. We got better prices booking thru AF than Delta.

Thanks for the responses. This forum is so helpful! I have been learning quite a bit about the ins and outs of Italy and Europe in general. It has me thinking we may spend our entire trip in Italy. It sounds like we can't go wrong with that!

If it was me traveling with 2 small children, I would look at flights with Iceland Air. Flight from Seattle to Iceland is only usually 7 hours or less. The airport is efficient and you could be on your way to your destination easily and with less time spent than with any other flights.

There have been a couple of similar discussions recently, but may be hard to find, since the search results are not in chronological order. Our staff uses the Delta flights to either Paris or Amsterdam frequently. Schipol airport is much preferred over CDG for easy transfers (and shorter/cheaper ground transport to the city).

Your return flight from Italy need not connect through the same city. For instance, if you want to visit Paris on the way in and transfer through Amsterdam on the way out, that should be an option. Use a multi-city flight search and then review the homeward connection schedules it offers. If you don't want to leave Italy at the crack of dawn, a mid-morning departure could result in an overnight layover in Amsterdam, which is not difficult with the local train service.

From SeaTac, you've got non-stops to London Heathrow (British Airways) and Paris DeGaulle (Delta)

Icelandair also flies through Rekjavik to many European cities--and their prices are often very good. You can also take a layover in Iceland which is a pretty neat place to visit.

I agree with Laura's suggestion. I usually try to get the Delta SEA -> AMS flights out and back. This last time I left before the crack of dawn from Milan Linate to connect with the AMS -> SEA flight and a decent flight back to my home airport. I decided next time I will do what Laura suggests and restructure my trip so I fly back to AMS at least a day or two ahead so I don't have to leave so early on a connecting flight. I also agree with AMS being fairly easy to transit thru for novice travelers.