Cheap flights

Chippy · Post by **Chippy** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:20 am

http://book.thomsonfly.com/en/index.html

free flights - pay taxes and charges only (restricted dates of course, but may be worthwhile)
Lasts until midnight

Jack Nicklaus · Post by **Jack Nicklaus** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:08 am

do all these flights to and from wherever to Faro help the environment?

Johnny Boy · Post by **Johnny Boy** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:57 am

Jet2 are doing Leeds/ Bradford. to Faro. Nov, Dec & Jan. for a £1+ Tax= £13 www.jet2.com

Chippy · Post by **Chippy** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:42 pm

Jack Nicklaus wrote:do all these flights to and from wherever to Faro help the environment?

Yes Jack, they do. They cause enough pollution to get rid of little weeds on the golf course, so don't hang around.

dodger · Post by **dodger** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:37 pm

Also on the cheap flights subject,Easyjet are flying from Newcastle to Faro 3 times a week from November to end of March,then daily for the summer.....graet news for cheap flights.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:56 pm

interesting you mention easyjet and cheap flights as if they go hand in hand.
We tried to get flights from luton, gatwick and stanstead for october school holidays and they are a rip off.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:57 pm

sorry, I forgot to say the October school holidays that is.

Guest2 · Post by **Guest2** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:59 pm

Jet2.com are doing the usual thing...... you can get out to Faro for £1 but pay an arm and a leg if you want to get back to the UK

pm · Post by pm » Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:41 pm

Anonymous wrote:interesting you mention easyjet and cheap flights as if they go hand in hand.
We tried to get flights from luton, gatwick and stanstead for october school holidays and they are a rip off.

Oh you mean a company is selling its goods for a higher price when there is more demand. And that is called a 'rip off' is it? Muppet.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:44 pm

yes, senior member especially when they set themselves up as a cheap flight organisation. Get the feeling you don't mind being ripped off?

sam · Post by **sam** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:57 pm

The Thomson cheap flights seem to be departing from airports I never knew existed. Doncaster?

pm · Post by pm » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:00 pm

It actually costs quite a lot to run an airline. Firms like easyjet minimise the cost by running the aircraft much harder. Charging a variable price for something is not 'a rip off', it's called 'the market economy' which is also why you get paid 3sh 6d (is that 3 shillings and sixpence?) per annum, and Wayne Rooney gets £10 billion. You see more people want to fly in the hols, so they can charge more which means, and listen carefully, they can run fuller aircraft on unpopular days by charging less. So, the school hols subsidise the non-school-hols days. Booking ahead works too.

tbbr · Post by **tbbr** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:08 pm

We fly to faro from bristol 4-6 times year, and have paid from as little as £35 return to over £150 dependant on day, time of year ( holidays, New year . easter etc ) and how far ahead we book.

We can leave work at 2.30 pm and be in Albufufeira having dinner by 8.30 pm.
There is no way we could do that if we had to travel to Gatwick, B,ham, Coventry where maybe the flight would be cheaper.

Look at the total cost, time, travel, parking etc NOT just the flight cost.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:31 pm

Thanks for the explanation tbbr. It is good when you can comment /explain something without resorting to arrogant language such as p.m. uses!

tbbr · Post by **tbbr** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:42 pm

thanks guest, mayne PM was suffering from a little PMT