Cheapest place for flights

[Owen]

Of course pretty much anyone coming to the islands is going to need a flight or two so let's share some ideas and places to look for finding the best deals.

First I'll start - there's a company called www.skyscanner.net that has a database of all the major charter companies so rather than checking them all one-by-one, go to www.skyscanner.net and enter your dates and you can see which has the best offer for your trip.

If you're flexible with dates, at the top of the page are some options for type of search - click on "month view" and you can see what dates they are the cheapest for that month.

[rab_c.]

if you are flying from scotland then globespan has some fantastic prices saturday and monday flights from glasgow at http://www.flyglobespan.com/index.asp?lan=en


rab_c.

[libbyo]

Of course pretty much anyone coming to the islands is going to need a flight or two so let's share some ideas and places to look for finding the best deals.

First I'll start - there's a company called www.skyscanner.net that has a database of all the major charter companies so rather than checking them all one-by-one, go to www.skyscanner.net and enter your dates and you can see which has the best offer for your trip.

If you're flexible with dates, at the top of the page are some options for type of search - click on "month view" and you can see what dates they are the cheapest for that month.

Looked at this site several times, its very good and easy to use. Its also worth remembering that these days two single jouneys with either that same company or seperate companies can some times work out cheaper than a standard return flight. Skyscanner will show that when it searches.

Libbyo

[John]

For us southerners ( I can't be the only one that lives south of Watford!) we've found that the BA scheduled flights from Gatwick are cheaper than most of the charter airlines, and generally give better flight times.

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb

Allways use Owens transfer from the airport too. Once you've tried it you wont EVER go back to a coach transfer

[sonalf]

got to agree with john ba have £98 00 return (that includes taxes) right through the year .we have booked flights in june & november for these prices,the trick is to put your approx date in and go 14 days either side you then get 28 days prices,you will be surprised how cheap they are ,as a bonus you gat a meal & all drinks are complimentry.:boozy:

[BLUEMOONSTEVE]

BA flying out of Manchester at the begining of 2006 are a lot cheaper than any tour operator also this site www.dohop.com is very good as well similar to skyscanner as it will find the cheapset deal and direct you to the relevant site

[BLUEMOONSTEVE]

just checked BA and for the 4/2 the return price from Manchester is £155 p/p , the charters are charging £200+ for those dates

thats is a direct flight so no changing , and my parents have booked a flight to Tenerife in late Jan for £100 p/p with BA

[libbyo]

BA has become very competitive. Its also woth checking opodo and expedia as well. Sometimes you can get a cheaper BA flight through them

Libbyo

[askimref]

There was a thread started on the old forum about a new airline flying from Cardiff in 2006 it starts in May and I noticed it is already cheaper to book a flight than Thompsons who up until now have had the monopoly at Cardiff.
http://www.xl.com/default.asp

[yflood]

if flying from irleand www.aerlingus.com does cheap flights between end of october to march. they go on tuesdays and saturdays prices only start from 49 euro one way.we went to gc with them recently and family of 4 return was 790 euro.