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URGENT! 1p Ryanair European flights to 40+ European destinations. Ends 23 Dec
UPDATE 23 Dec. Ryanair has extended its sale so you can book up until 24 Dec now.
Written 22 Dec '08
What's the deal?
No frills airline Ryanair is advertising 500,000 Free one way flights (including standard taxes and charges) from 16 UK airports to over 40 European destinations, such as Barcelona, Pisa and Paris-Beauvais.
Flights must be booked by midday Tues 23 Dec (although Ryanair's press release says it's on till 24 December so it's possible it may be extended) for travel in Jan and Feb '09.
When and where are the flights?
Ryanair is clever with its promotions. As the flights aren’t for all dates the likelihood is, for anyone without huge flexibility, you may find a 1p flight for one leg of your journey but pay more for the other leg.
Book before midday Tues 23 Dec.
Journeys must take place between 6 Jan & 28 Feb '09: For flights between 12pm Mon & 12pm Thurs. All school breaks and major sporting event periods are excluded too.
Departure airports are: Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Doncaster, Durham Tees, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, Liverpool, London Luton, London Gatwick, London Stansted and Newcastle.
Destinations include: Barcelona, Biarritz, Budapest T1, Dublin, Katowice, Knock, Limoges, Nantes, Paris-Beauvais, Perugia, Prague, Rzeszow, Shannon, Stockholm, Szczecin and Turin.
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Ryanair calls it 'free' are they really?
Ryanair's touts these flights as free yet they're actually 1p each way due to the booking system. This is reclaimable, but it's likely to cost you more than 1p to do it, so don't bother.
In fact, unfortunately most people will pay more as Ryanair is a cheap-as-chips budget airline, so sadly its pricing structure leaves a lot to be desired as it considers taking stowed baggage and using airport check-in as ‘extras’.
Yet if you only take hand-luggage, check in online and pay via Visa Electron, the flights really can be had for a penny each way. For everyone else, expect to pay more, though it's still easily possible to get to Europe and back for around £30 all-in.
When checking the price, do ensure you go through and ensure it includes taxes & charges, as there are often some flights at that price where you have to add the charges on top.
Ryanair’s ‘extra’ charges
Taking checked-in baggage. Pre-book your baggage and it’s £10 for the first suitcase, and £20 per item thereafter; otherwise all baggage is £20 a piece. Baggage over 15kg is charged as excess (the maximum weight of free hand luggage is 10 Kg).
If you don’t check-in online. If you need to check-in at the airport you’ll pay £5 per person each way if pre-booked online. Turn up or book to do so over the phone and the cost doubles to £8. This charge is unavoidable for anyone taking baggage. If you’re only taking hand luggage, check-in online, between 14 days and four hours beforehand and it's free.
For paying! Ryanair charges £5 per person per flight for debit and credit card transactions. Rather disingenuously it can still claim this is an ‘extra’, as if you pay by the less common ‘Visa Electron’ card it is free.
Want other cheap flights?
If you're looking for other flights not included in this promotion, or further afield, read the main Cheap Flights guide, which will show you how to get the cheapest flights anywhere in the world. And if you do nab a good deal, why not help the environment by Carbon Offsetting.
Why aren't these flights in the flightchecker?
In the good old days the speedy way to find these flights was to use the FlightChecker which is designed to find budget airline promotional deals.
Yet Ryanair launched a campaign against screenscraper websites, and even though the Flightchecker isn't one, it means Ryanair isn't keen on sharing info from its website and has blocked many access routes; and is quite closed in its communication.
Thus while the flightchecker contains lots of other airlines, getting the info on Ryanair is very tempramental but we're working to find a way around this.
Many thanks to MoneySaver iwantitnow for originally spotting this. This post has been inserted into the top of the thread to provide a researched explanation.
Ryanair 500,000 Free Seats (No Taxes or Charges) on sale 22 December
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, today (21st Dec) announced that its will be working all the way up to Christmas Day in order to deliver 500,000 Christmas gifts to passengers, as it launched 500,000 FREE seats, one-way including taxes and charges, as part of its Christmas Seat Give Away which runs from Monday 22nd until 12pm on Christmas Eve (Wed 24th) for travel in January and February.
What a good offer. Why is it when I try to find bargains such as a £0.04 flight it never works. Have just done a random search to Dublin from London and for 2 adults, 1 child and 1 infant the price was £70.03!
What a good offer. Why is it when I try to find bargains such as a £0.04 flight it never works. Have just done a random search to Dublin from London and for 2 adults, 1 child and 1 infant the price was £70.03!
Yes I tried Oslso and it was £100 all for the infant! Unfortunately she'll be 2 a month after the offer ends!
Haven't tried this myself but for anyone without an Electron card there may be another way to avoid the payment charges. Someone on HUKD has reported buying a gift voucher online using their normal credit card. They then used this to pay for their flights without being charged. They bought a voucher worth £30, not sure what the minimum is BUT you have to spend it within 6 months. Might be worth a look if you know you will spend the balance soon.
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No point in being random, to find the 1p flights you need to check the days and times.
Fares include taxes & charges
Booking Period:Mon 22nd Dec 08 - Tue 23rd Dec 08
Travel Period due 06th Jan 09 - Sat 28th Feb 09 Applicable Days:after 1200 Mon / all day Tues & Wed / before 1200 Thurs (subject to availability)
Flight must be purchased:14 Days in advance Blackout Period:12th Feb '09 - 23rd Feb '09
to/from UK & Ireland Notes on this fare all Holidays, School Breaks and Major Sporting Events are excluded from this offer
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What happens if you book and find you no longer need the flights?
I would always like to cancel such things (in case I get blacklisted in future!) but is there a change for cancellation or any hassle for not turning up?
can anyone tell me if there is cheaper than this, sorry not used to doing it.x
You are booking during the holiday period and you need to look for 1p flights not the free flights as the free flights have taxes added.
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What happens if you book and find you no longer need the flights?
I would always like to cancel such things (in case I get blacklisted in future!) but is there a change for cancellation or any hassle for not turning up?
No problem at all. Just don't turn up. No extra fees other than what you have paid.
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