Finding Direct Flights

Most of the search engines show that. For example - on Orbitz when the fares pop up there is a box across the that shows 0, 1, 2, 3 connections. Except for a few key hubs, direct flights are not frequent. In Denver, we have one direct flight, may have two this summer. Everything needs to connect generally through Chicago or other major airports. And I would guess that it would be very unusual for Seattle to have direct flights to more than one or two cities in Europe. Call the airport and ask. They will know.

Direct flights from Seattle: Air France - Paris, KLM - Copenhagen , Lufthansa - Frankfurt , British Air - London, Icelandic Air (with a quick stop in Iceland) - numerous destinations.. We always flew SAS on our yearly trip to Europe but they pulled out of Seattle. Mostly fly AF now but flew KLM last year (2011). Any NW folks know of others?

A quick check of my Magic 8-Ball shows that you can fly nonstop from Seattle to London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam.

Wow, you are doing better than Denver.

Frank---It helps to live up here in the far North, at least for destinations in northern Europe (i.e., not Italy or Spain.) Sara---the shortest flight is the one to London on British Airways. We have taken that flight numerous times. Leave here around 6:45 pm; arrive London Heathrow just before noon. Unless of course you want to go to Rekjavik. I believe you can fly non-stop there too.

Try looking at arrivals and departures on the airport website.

Sara, Personally we prefer the Delta Seattle to Amsterdam flight making sure if we have connections to allow at LEAST an hour & 15 minutes to get through passport control. (But you have to be assertive to get through the crowds......There are usually only vague queues!) Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is huge but well organized and everything's in English.
Just my 2 bits--hope it helps!

Try Kayak.com where you can click on "More" and then, under "Tools" click on "Explore". Enter your airport and chose nonstop. Not sure how comprehensive this is, but it might be a start. And just for the record, I once believed there was a big difference betwen "nonstop" and "direct", the latter being a flight that may stop X times along the way but never requires a change of planes. This almost caused a big problem once when speaking to the airlines. Has this distinction faded?

A basic Kayak search will show a bunch of flights, on the left bar, choose zero stops and it will instantly eliminate all the other choices. You will have to do a seperate search for each destination you're interested in.

I'm assuming that Sara means "non-stop" flights and the answer is what Tom said.

If you do a Google search for "direct flights from Seattle" you will see a list of all direct flights from Seattle, both domestic and international. This works for any city with an airport.

If you are willing to take a short hop first to Vancouver, you'll find a few more nonstop options from there, including to Munich during the summer. It's easy to travel Seattle to Vancouver (Air Canada and Alaska offer frequent quick flights) and transit home is no problem, since you don't have to clear Canadian customs and immigration if you are in transit from somewhere else to the US. The important thing is having a nice long non-stop flight during which you can sleep on the way to Europe. Incidentally, the KLM and AirFrance flights out of Seatac are no more--replaced by Delta flights. And the BA nonstop is usually crazy-expensive. (For a glorious few months, we had a NW nonstop to London which pushed BA to drop its extortionate prices, but when NW was absorbed by Delta, that flight went away. Sad. Almost as sad as losing SAS. ) Icelandair gives you a free stopover in Iceland, which is nice if you haven't been there before, but it is really a no frills airline. Tight seat pitch, no free anything. Like flying a domestic airline, it will get you there but don't expect much in the way of comfort or service.

I do what Laura says ... Look at airport website and look at their arrivals/departures links.