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Bee:

--- Quote from: Bee on November 26, 2012, 08:58:59 PM ---I have just checked and I can get a Monarch flight for June for £187.44 from Luton :)

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Then I saw the flight times so have revised it to £214.44 :P

Bristle Boy:

--- Quote from: Tredegar Boy on November 26, 2012, 01:55:33 PM ---Morning all from a slightly drier South Wales than of late - I have a question.

Normally by this time I've booked our flights to Corfu for July, however I haven't this year because the prices seem to be incredibly high regardless of the carrier. Last summer I paid roughly £250 each for our flights with Thomas Cook. The same flights for 2013 at roughly the same time are £360+ at the moment. Easyjet's prices have ballooned mainly I guess because you have to book your seats now.

Is this just a problem in Bristol and Cardiff or are the prices much higher regardless of where you fly from? If so are the prices going to stay this way because paying roughly £1200 (3 tickets) is a lot more money to find than £750.  

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Hi Tredegar

We fly from Bristol all the time. We're frequent users of Easyjet.
Prices have shot up - it's more true than in the past that u have to try and book as soon as Ejet flights come out. And by that i mean the day they come out.

We fly to Faro, Portugal once or twice a year - we privately book an apartment so always fly Ejet. In July this year we paid £280 return for the two of us (thats the total price, so £140 each). We paid about the same for September this year. A couple of years ago same flights would've been about £100 each.
In June 2011 we paid £75 return for flights to Fuerteventura - the other week, 1st wk of November cost £140 each to Fuert.

I'm currently accessing Ejet website about 4 times/day waiting for September 2013 flights to Faro - sad maybe but i want to get best prices. I' m afraid it's the only way to get cheapest flights these says, esp on the popular routes.

Another development with Ejet this year and onwards is the following:
They signed a partnership deal with Thomas Cook - effectively some Thomas Cook package hols now use Ejet planes - TC have stopped using their own aircraft to some S European airports. This increases demand for Ejet seats, so prices ratchet up quite quickly. Good for Ejet, not so good for Ejet frequent flyers.
The days of cheap air travel are over, unless travelling in off peak season and that's not often.

So plan yr hols way in advance, watch Ejet website a few times/day and book as soon as the flights are released. Worry about accomodation booking after.

EDIT:
Bristol to Corfu is one of the routes that TC is using Ejet for its package hols next Summer - so i'm afraid the BTL to Corfu route is going to be v high demand, with a mix of Ejet independent travellers and TC package holidaymakers.
Bang goes that cheaper route! Too late now but for Summer 2014 book on the day Ejet summer flights are released if u want to travel to Corfu with Ejet.
At the mo only flights to Corfu from BTL with Ejet are out up to 1st week of Sept 2013.

loftyscot:
Agree Bristle Boy, direct flights from Edi are v. expensive compared to previous years for the school holidays

Tredegar Boy:
Hi Bristle Boy

We used to use Ejet every year but got fed up with the flight times (I hate late evening flights getting back to the UK at midnight) so we used Thomas Cook this year.

Next year our holiday starts on a Friday and the prices for flights then are more expensive than a Monday - why's that for flip sake.

When we used to book Ejet the prices went up the more people booked - that can't be happening this year for next as the prices for July have been high since they came out (£320 quoted for July when first released - thats a heck of a rise).

Thomsons are quoting £420 each from Cardiff on the day I want!!!!! I ask you, £420 each. I don't want to buy the plane just borrow it for a while.

Oh well I'll have to think of something else we need to do without to save the money.

Cheers 
 

Bristle Boy:

--- Quote from: Tredegar Boy on November 27, 2012, 08:32:41 PM ---Hi Bristle Boy

We used to use Ejet every year but got fed up with the flight times (I hate late evening flights getting back to the UK at midnight) so we used Thomas Cook this year.

Next year our holiday starts on a Friday and the prices for flights then are more expensive than a Monday - why's that for flip sake.

When we used to book Ejet the prices went up the more people booked - that can't be happening this year for next as the prices for July have been high since they came out (£320 quoted for July when first released - thats a heck of a rise).

Thomsons are quoting £420 each from Cardiff on the day I want!!!!! I ask you, £420 each. I don't want to buy the plane just borrow it for a while.

Oh well I'll have to think of something else we need to do without to save the money.

Cheers  
 

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I'm convinced the main reason for the quick rise in Ejet flight prices, so soon after they are released, is down to the TC issue on some routes.
And agree Ejet flight times to Corfu are awful, hence why we havent been to SS since June 2010.
Maybe we'll look at a Thomson package in 2014.

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