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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Do they still exist

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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If you mean the ones for £2.50 I've not noticed them recently.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"If you mean the ones for £2.50 I've not noticed them recently. "

Blimey I never saw them that cheap!!

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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"If you mean the ones for £2.50 I've not noticed them recently.

Blimey I never saw them that cheap!!"

My workmate found one to Tenerife once for £1.20 one way. Obviously there were taxes on top of that.

I think most sites include the taxes which is why they're not that cheap any more, but I managed to find flights to Marrakech with Easyjet for £88 both ways. Unfortunately we are landing in the UK at stupid o'clock, so that's why they're cheap.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Think they have to put in all the extras that they hid before and then you ended up paying £45 for the £5 flight.

You can still get good deals out there if you look

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I dont think they are really cheap any more but the rule of thumb is that sooner you book it then the cheaper it will be.. Norwiegen are doing some really good rates out of gatwick at the mo...

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By *teveanddebsCouple
over a year ago

Norwich

A couple of years ago Debs and I went to Dublin for a couple of days for the princely sum of £0.12 return. That was all we had to pay but I don't think that happens nowadays.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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"I dont think they are really cheap any more but the rule of thumb is that sooner you book it then the cheaper it will be.. Norwiegen are doing some really good rates out of gatwick at the mo..."

Finnair are doing return flights to Thailand for £500. It's just a case of looking at all the websites.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"A couple of years ago Debs and I went to Dublin for a couple of days for the princely sum of £0.12 return. That was all we had to pay but I don't think that happens nowadays."

I think you win ! wow that's amazing. I've found a cheap place in Sicily but trying to get there and working on school holiday times is proving either impossible or very very expensive.

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By *extoysareusCouple
over a year ago

kinky heaven

Norwegian were doing about £300 flights to Thailand earlier on the new big plane out of England its expensive sometimes flying out of EU works cheaper.

London used to be a cheap hub but not now

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By *extoysareusCouple
over a year ago

kinky heaven

This is probably down to duties and taxes etc etc

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By *extoysareusCouple
over a year ago

kinky heaven

"A couple of years ago Debs and I went to Dublin for a couple of days for the princely sum of £0.12 return. That was all we had to pay but I don't think that happens nowadays.

I think you win ! wow that's amazing. I've found a cheap place in Sicily but trying to get there and working on school holiday times is proving either impossible or very very expensive."
school holiday times is another rip off

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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"Norwegian were doing about £300 flights to Thailand earlier on the new big plane out of England its expensive sometimes flying out of EU works cheaper.

London used to be a cheap hub but not now"

Too true. Though the Finnair ones are from Manchester Airport which saves me the cost of getting to Heathrow.

Funnily enough though when I first went to Thailand in 1991 the flights were about £450 so they haven't gone up much at all.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes they do thank goodness

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By *reelove1969Couple
over a year ago

bristol

5 of us got return flights from bristol to dublin for 10p ...no hidden extras ...that was the price !

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Yes they do thank goodness

please share don't be shy!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The answer is no!

I used to fly all round Europe, any where from a fiver to thirty quid return

You'd be lucky get it for under a hundred now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If you mean the ones for £2.50 I've not noticed them recently.

Blimey I never saw them that cheap!!

My workmate found one to Tenerife once for £1.20 one way. Obviously there were taxes on top of that.

Those flights are cheaper than a train is costing me from Hertfordshire to Nottingham next week. Cheap is a relative term.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

we use flights all the time, being in a LDR that involved different countries.

but travel between ireland and the UK every other week for between £50 and £100 return, which, as has been said, would be what it would cost to go out with someone that lived a fair distance away in the UK

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

Ryanair fly from Stanstead to Palermo and Luton and Manchester to Trapani.

Have you tried skyscanner? Not all the budget airlines show up but it does give you airlines you might not have thought of trying.

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

And depending on which part of sicily it might be worth seeing who flies into Reggio Calabria.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Ryanair fly from Stanstead to Palermo and Luton and Manchester to Trapani.

Have you tried skyscanner? Not all the budget airlines show up but it does give you airlines you might not have thought of trying."

Thank you but they seem to be really expensive now. I'm sure we flew with them last time in 2010 and got a great deal.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"And depending on which part of sicily it might be worth seeing who flies into Reggio Calabria."

Oh not heard of that, I'll take a look thank you

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

Easyjet fly to Catania from Gatwick, Luton and Manchester. And to Palermo from Gatwick.

Reggio Calabria is on mainland Italy (in the toe) but it's just a short ferry ride to north eastern sicily.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

we're looking at north west - San Vito La Copa

The best I've seen is Alitalia from Heathrow. But it would mean taking daughter out of school for one day, and I don't think the schools allow this now.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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"we're looking at north west - San Vito La Copa

The best I've seen is Alitalia from Heathrow. But it would mean taking daughter out of school for one day, and I don't think the schools allow this now."

Worth asking.

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By *ulie and PaulCouple
over a year ago

stockportish

Just did Ryanair last week manchester to Brussels

7.50 each way plus taxes took it £29 return. Bargain!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"we're looking at north west - San Vito La Copa

The best I've seen is Alitalia from Heathrow. But it would mean taking daughter out of school for one day, and I don't think the schools allow this now.

Worth asking. "

The school sent a letter out a few months back saying even dentists and doctors appointments should be done during holidays

Wish me luck!

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

"we're looking at north west - San Vito La Copa

The best I've seen is Alitalia from Heathrow. But it would mean taking daughter out of school for one day, and I don't think the schools allow this now.

Worth asking.

The school sent a letter out a few months back saying even dentists and doctors appointments should be done during holidays

Wish me luck!"

Awww that sucks. Can't she *ahem* get sick coincidentally just before the hols? The last day before they break-up is always a slack one anyway.

Seriously, the amount of money I've saved now I don't have to holiday in the school hols. Holiday companies should feel ashamed hiking the prices up so much.

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By *atcherofmyballsMan
over a year ago

hereford

You tube- cheap flights by fascinating aida

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

its all gone Pete Tongue.

Had to change destination and can only get flights cheaply by stopping on the way there and on the way back.

The flight prices practically double for school holiday time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The school holiday prices are disgusting I don't know how they can get away with it,

up here they can fine you 100 quid for taking your child out of school, but you save 300 to 400 on holiday prices so it's worth the fine if there not doing gcse's or a levels

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was able to fly to Lisbon for £51 all in last year.

I don't care that there was no meal or anything as it's only two and a half hours

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"we're looking at north west - San Vito La Copa

The best I've seen is Alitalia from Heathrow. But it would mean taking daughter out of school for one day, and I don't think the schools allow this now.

Worth asking.

The school sent a letter out a few months back saying even dentists and doctors appointments should be done during holidays

Wish me luck!"

good luck getting your kids to be ill only when the holidays come along

and as for dentist appointments....tens of thousands of kids trying to get in in the same 3 week period? are these people living on the same planet as the rest of us?

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By *teveanddebsCouple
over a year ago

Norwich

"The school holiday prices are disgusting "

What's the alternative?put a levy on all the other holiday makers to make it the same price? If it's the same price then they may as well go at peak times as well then there won't be enough places for the families.

Just look forward to the kids growing up and the cheap holidays you can have then.

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By *leasures4Couple
over a year ago

East midlands

We flew out to Ibiza in the summer holidays for £65 each...not bad really.. but coming back was another £120. Depends which days you fly on. Best to pick and chose flights and the book your hotel around the cheap flights

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ryanair

Birmingham - Gran Canaria

Mid January 2014 £35 each way

Booked it, packed it, f**ked off

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Yes I see prices like this at certain times of the year.

Anyway I booked ours now. Came to a bit more than yours though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

we got flights to Tenerife and what I thought was a good deal (maybe not) and its cost £187 return for both of us!

roll oin 6th december

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By *ex.IncCouple
over a year ago

Castleford

We dont do too bad at all but I do all my research and specialise in budget travel. For example we are going to prague in jan for 3 nights for £90pp with private taxi and usual hotel included, berlin for 2 nights in feb for £50pp and then spain for a week in april for £135pp. The best package we had last year was a week to Malia last minute in june for £115 and then a few years ago 2 weeks in Rhodes for £125. June sees a decline in travel and with peak time hotels to fill, last minute package deals with the likes of Thomas cook are a must.

The deals are out there if you know the tricks with dates, prepared for sometimes crap flights and know your suppliers, although flight only is nowhere as cheap as before.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do they still exist

Yeah, but having seen Airline on the telly I'd never use one.

Who needs that potential ass-ache on your hols?..

I'd rather pay the extra £50 quid and fly BA

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By *ex.IncCouple
over a year ago

Castleford

"Do they still exist

Yeah, but having seen Airline on the telly I'd never use one.

Who needs that potential ass-ache on your hols?..

I'd rather pay the extra £50 quid and fly BA

If people turn up on time and stick to what the terms of travel are then theres no problem. Our last 4 flights have been with Easyjet with 2 more coming up and we havent had a single delay or drama. Just a professional service all round especially since Carolyn McCall has taken the reins. Shes done wonders for Easyjet and raised their profile incredibly from the days of 'Airline' circa early-mid 00's.

Besides, after Airline aired it led to an increase in customers and profit, not bad to say it was showing them in a bad light.

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