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I'm thinking about jetting off to Dublin or somewhere else on the Easyjet/Ryan Air route in the comming months, basically a dirt-cheap weekend away with flights inc. tax at about £25 return.

Has anyone had a good cheapy flight somewhere that they can recommend? :D
 
Ian...

What you do want to do is make sure that the cost of flights is inclusive of EVERYTHING - Tax, and the other stuff that you pay too.

That aside, My parents went to Edinburgh once with easyjet and they had no problems - nice staff onboard and it was more like being on a bus than a plane aparently, none of this enclosed walkway onto the aircraft, you exit the terminal and walk to the plane and go up the stairs onto it at which point you can sit in any availiable seat.

From my knowledge of them, i could reccomend easyjet on the technical side of things... They have a VERY modern fleet of aircraft - all of, if not mostly, are later versions of the Boeing 737 and also the Airbus A319 - more favourable than DC9's or 737-200's that some low cost, newer airlines operate.

On the topic of cheap flights, I was at Gatwick airport yesterday and British Airways are advertising some of their cheapy flights. You can go proper abroad to france or spain places like that for £69 and that of course is return but TBH i am not sure if that included taxes.

Are you just looking for cheap flights and not bothered about where to or are you set on going to Dublin for the cheapest you can do it?

Chris
 
Lufthansa : Economy



Depart : 1 Nov 12:05 from Manchester [MAN] - non stop / 00h 55m
Arrival : 1 Nov 13:00 to Edinburgh [EDI]
Depart : 10 Nov 07:00 from Edinburgh [EDI] - non stop / 01h 00m
Arrival : 10 Nov 08:00 to Manchester [MAN]

PRICE £53 Including taxes
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BMI and BA offer the same service, just a tad more expensive. BMI is £57 so i guess you wanted to go at a more popular time?

dates?
 
wow, nice one Chris! Some time from the end of Aug to about the 20th Sept would be good!
 
Those dates happen to be fairly expensive, as you say, however, if you tweak the days a little you can knock alot off of the price.

I dont know if it would work for you but the cheapest i could find in that time period are these...

British Airways : Economy



Depart : 5 Sep 15:00 from Manchester [MAN] - non stop / 01h 00m

Arrival : 5 Sep 16:00 to Edinburgh [EDI] Depart : 25 Sep 10:45 from Edinburgh [EDI] - non stop / 01h 05m

Arrival : 25 Sep 11:50 to Manchester [MAN]

Price: £77 inc all Taxes.
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or...

you can have 31st august to the 20th september on British Airways but that will cost you £94
 
Thanks Chris, I'll have a play with the site to find a weekend within those dates to find something cheap :) At least its not as bad as I thought!

Might end up going after Christmas when its cheaper in the end though.
 
ebookers.com is what i used by the way - nice and easy. Travlebag.co.uk worth a look too - same search engine.

Good luck :)
 
Ian Cunningham said:
I'm thinking about jetting off to Dublin or somewhere else on the Easyjet/Ryan Air route in the comming months, basically a dirt-cheap weekend away with flights inc. tax at about £25 return.

Has anyone had a good cheapy flight somewhere that they can recommend? :D
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I hope your fit, because a flight that cheap must have some sorta scheme going on. I bet when you get in there wont be any seats, just rows and rows of exercise bikes hooked up to dynamos to bower the plane :p.
 
lol, I hope not ;)

It does seem strange how they can have such cheap flights, as they must have to sell some tickets at high prices to balance the cost. I do Aerospace Engineering at uni, and I still can't figure it out!
 
I hope your fit, because a flight that cheap must have some sorta scheme going on. I bet when you get in there wont be any seats, just rows and rows of exercise bikes hooked up to dynamos to bower the plane
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Dont be so stupid!!

The £25 goes towards caffeine/taurine/glucose enhanced hamster food and red bull to feed to the hamsters that sit in the wing on mini treadmills that power the turbines! duh!

It does seem strange how they can have such cheap flights, as they must have to sell some tickets at high prices to balance the cost. I do Aerospace Engineering at uni, and I still can't figure it out!
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What i think they do is sell a portion of the seats at a low cost and nearer the time raise the prices to balance it all out. I dont imagine they make MASSIVE profit off of these cheapy flights but enough to make it worthwhile and build up company to customer relation and trust.
 
I've used Ryan Airways, they're OK, much the same as Easyjet. Nothing fancy, but economical.

And I haven't a clue what aircraft it was, but it got me there and back and didn't crash once :p
 
Ryan air operate Boeing 737's. they actually still use the older 200 series ones that date back something like 30 years so they are not great but they use some newer ones too.

Chances are your not gonna crash, aviation laws are so tight nowadays that hardly anything (major) goes wrong.

Mate flew back to states yesterday with Northwest. 9 hour flight - they used a plane so old it still had ash trays in the seats - since when were you allowed to smoke on planes? it was a DC10. They entered service with the airline in 1972 LOL. Rustbuckets.

The moral of the story? Hes alive
 
I've been looking at a German company recently called Hapag-Lloyd (www.hlx.com/en/) which has flights from £5.41 (each way minus taxes), but still works out very cheap. My dad's going to be living in Cologne, so it's going to be very useful!
 
christopherpostill said:
The £25 goes towards caffeine/taurine/glucose enhanced hamster food and red bull to feed to the hamsters that sit in the wing on mini treadmills that power the turbines! duh!
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Did you know that the average laboratory hamster travels 2.5 miles per night on it's wheel?!

Perhaps I should start a thread seeing who knows the most useless fact... hmmm...
 
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