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Kalkan Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: pw on March 17, 2019, 12:32:00 PM

Title: Flights
Post by: pw on March 17, 2019, 12:32:00 PM

For non-facebookers.........

Some FoKs may find this interesting......when it came to booking flights for our May/June holiday I wasn’t prepared to pay the Jet2.com fare at the time so started monitoring with Skyscanner. This is the result for 1xreturn from LBA, out 31/5 back 14/6 no bags

30/12    £374
6/1.        £375
13/1.       £364
21/1.        £364
29/1.      £328
5/2.        £359
13/2.      £338
19/2.      £295
262.       £279
1/3.         £268
6/3.        £263
7/3.        £259
12/3.       £345
13/3.      £259
15/3.      £253
16/3.      £249
17/3.       £243
Add £60 for 22kg and about £18 for the cheapest seat.

Quite a range!

Anyhoo........bit the bullet on New Year’s Eve and booked easyJet from Manchester. Slightly different dates giving us a little longer in Kalkan. Paid £283 similar for bag and seat.

So after all that, you pays ya money and takes ya choice!

Onwards and upwards..........

✈️ 🇹🇷 sun ☀️ 🌊 🏖 🛥

Title: Re: Flights
Post by: Chris_S on March 18, 2019, 10:49:40 AM

or Not.

Tui, LGW-DLM, 4-20 September 2019, 2px - guess how much?

£1454

And that's before selecting your seats, checked in luggage and all else.

You don't half get it cheap up North! >:D ;D

Title: Re: Flights
Post by: Gelin on March 18, 2019, 02:37:06 PM

Easyjet flights from Manchester 4/20th Sept under £700 for 2 with luggage and seats Chris. It does have its compensations living up north.

Title: Re: Flights
Post by: tortoise lady on March 18, 2019, 02:44:18 PM

pw, I would be interested to know the times of the flights you achieved at such good prices.   I don't do well with night flights or ones where you need to be on your way by 3 a.m. to get to the airport and check in.   As a result I don't normally achieve flights at a good price.

Title: Re: Flights
Post by: Gelin on March 18, 2019, 02:56:23 PM

Yes it's an early flight going out 6:55 and 14:05 coming back. Might be worth an over night stay at the airport.

Title: Re: Flights
Post by: pw on March 18, 2019, 04:28:20 PM

Quote from: tortoise lady on March 18, 2019, 02:44:18 PM

pw, I would be interested to know the times of the flights you achieved at such good prices.   I don't do well with night flights or ones where you need to be on your way by 3 a.m. to get to the airport and check in.   As a result I don't normally achieve flights at a good price.

Departs Manchester 7am 30th May and arrives 1.20pm

Title: Re: Flights
Post by: IssyG on March 19, 2019, 12:48:43 PM

I tried to book flights on Easyjet for this May half term as soon as they came out - over £1k for two people, no luggage or seats! 
Ended up booking the Regency for £1,760 standard room plus breakfast - this includes breakfast, transfers and a day on their boat. 
I know accommodation can be cheap in Kalkan and have booked either a villa or apartment for the last 10 years or so, but the flight prices to Turkey are now beyond ridiculous at least in term time anyway. 
Roll on retirement only a year away I hope.

Title: Re: Flights
Post by: Blue Lizard on March 19, 2019, 07:19:04 PM

At £1454     TUI should stand for Thieves Under Investigation!!  >:D :P

Title: Re: Flights
Post by: alantj on March 20, 2019, 01:59:07 PM

Quote from: Blue Lizard on March 19, 2019, 07:19:04 PM

At £1454     TUI should stand for Thieves Under Investigation!!  >:D :P

Supply and demand.

We came out in October on TUI £80 return and decent times.

Title: Re: Flights
Post by: Chris_S on March 21, 2019, 01:17:22 PM

Well, Supply and Demand may be part of it, but as we have the choice of 4 airports within 2 hours of us so we have a wide choice.

tui invariably come out most expensive, apart from BA Club from Gatwick when the date gets closer.  And not by a close margin either.

Currently tui  LGW-DKM, 4-20 Sept 19 is £1630 basic for two, it's never been below £1348 since last August (don't ask how I know).  If you come back on the 18th, it's a meagre £974.  Cheapest is TC at £483 though these flights are between 0200 and 0530.

Taking 5-19 June 19, tui are £810 from LGW and a paltry £614 from LGW, though this was £954 in January.  Cheapest is Jet2 at £486.

It's a far from straightforward issue.  Though I am convinced they've stoked the prices this year because they reckoned the fears about not being able to go to Europe meant they could charge a Premium for non-EU non-long-haul destinations.

This is indicated by EasyJet LTN-DLM June 2018: £408; 2019: £630 and LTN-DLM September 2018: £373; 2019: £667.  Both booked on day of release and never cheaper.

Skegness anyone?

Title: Re: Flights
Post by: keith on March 22, 2019, 06:13:00 PM

So pleased that we booked our September flights last June. From what I'm reading the current pricing is starting to get quite ridiculous. I appreciate that old fashioned economics  comes into play i.e. supply v. demand but, I do wonder whether or not the airlines will live to regret their current pricing strategy..

Title: Re: Flights
Post by: Chris_S on March 23, 2019, 12:11:19 PM

They may do - if they realise you can go to Florida for less.

Anybody know what Morocco is like? >:D >:D

Title: Re: Flights
Post by: pw on April 30, 2019, 07:44:50 AM

Update: trending downwards. Today’s price £216..........

pw