Sometimes when I’m writing about these deals, I stare at a blank screen for a minute or two trying to come up with something funny to say about them, when really you’re probably just interested in the deal and don’t care how clever I am (or am not, as the case may be). So when I looked at yet another deal for fall air travel to Europe just now and thought, “airfare falls just like the leaves this time of year,” I think I actually made myself cringe. On with the deal.

SAS is jumping on the fall airfare sale bandwagon with a slew of low fares from select US cities to select Scandinavian cities (and a few non-Scandinavian cities too, so they’re not being completely biased), so grab a sweater and hop on board. Some of the deals are:

• From Newark to Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, or Helsinki from $638 RT
• From Chicago or Washington DC to Warsaw or Gdansk from $710 RT
• From Seattle to Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Geneva, Milan or Zurich from $790 RT
• From Newark to Riga or Tallinn from $838 RT
• From Chicago or Washington DC to Riga or Tallinn from $890

The prices you’ll see on the website are actually one-way prices, so I’ve doubled them above so you can get a little more accurate picture of what you’d pay. The quoted fares don’t include some taxes & fees, but they apparently do include the fuel surcharge. To take advantage of these deals, you’ll need to travel between October 27 – December 11, 2008 or December 25, 2008 – April 2, 2009. But you’ll need to book your tickets by September 30, 2008. When booking, be sure to read all the details about this deal, and use the promo code LFALWEB to get the sale prices.