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debra:
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?   Flight prices have gone absolutely crazy - we have to book 20 plus!!!

Waspman:
Yes, they have gone crazy. Our flights for June 2013 (for two of us) booked last year with Easyjet were £340 including luggage, select seats and admin fee.

Now, exactly the same flights/times with Easyjet including the same options are £693

Thomsons cost for the same dates are now £842 and Thomas Cook now charges £522

Our flights to Corfu in September 2013 have so far gone up by £66. I expect that by May/June 2013 that cost would have increased significantly.

D@G:
Booked our flights (x3 for May) last November £850. They are now £200 cheaper :(

2 weeks independent this year still works out £400 cheaper than the same 2 weeks with thomsons last year though.  :D

Jimbo:
This is probably the most expensive time of the year to book flights. I booked Leeds/Corfu in November for £244 each including baggage and seat reservations.

Just checked and about £60 more now.

After Easter is good, if you can wait.

Bristle Boy:
Where do you normally fly from Debra?

I did cover this in another thread before Xmas but Ejet from Bristol are letting Thomas Cook package holidaymakers use some of their flights to southern europe. Inevitably this pushes up prices quite quickly.
And if an airline is flying to a destination only a couple of times/week then obviously demand is high.

You may have noticed in recent days that both Tui (thomson) and Thomas Cook have had favourable comments from analysts in the financial pages of the newspapers.

They've streamlined their business models, greater efficiencies and generally better run businesses that have effectively caught up with the current climate, post global financial crisis.

I think the travel consumer is facing a much tougher travel climate than the last 5 years, where flight bargains especially were commonplace.
The travel industry seems to be emerging from its overcrowded marketplace of a few years ago and is much leaner and fitter.

That's how i see it anyway. Hence, consumer travel bargains are getting harder to find, unless one is almost super flexible on time, date, destination, etc.

Book early seems to be the motto - certainly with flights - on the day Ejet release their flights.

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