MAJOR FLIGHT SALE UNTIL THURSDAY. Flights at £7 e/w all-in to European Destinations

MSE_Martin

Update Tuesday 24 Oct: The offer has been extended until midnight Thursday 26 October - £7 flights are still available.

Budget airline Ryanair is offering a raft of European destinations from a selection of British airports for as little as £7 each way including taxes & charges until midnight Thursday 19 Oct - very cheap indeed.

As always the problem with these things is actually finding the special offer flights, go direct to Ryanair and you'll pay more, yet read the explanation below and it'll explain how to use the free FlightChecker tool to speedily find the offer flights (for details on how best to utilize it see later)

Which airports does it fly from?

These £7 flights are available from East Midlands, Liverpool, Glasgow, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Blackpool and DurhamTeesValley.

There are also £8 & £9 flights from London Luton, London Stansted, Aberdeen, Bristol, Doncaster Sheffield, Inverness, Manchester and Leeds Bradford.

Lots of destinations are included; Dublin, Nimes, Milan, Aberdeen, Carcassonne, Kerry, Ancona, Barcelona, Bournemouth, Frankfurt, London, Porto, Santiago de Compostela, Santander and more!

When?

You need to book before Thursday and at least 14 days ahead and flights must be between 30 Oct and 24 March 2007 with the following exclusions

20th Dec '06 - 09th Jan '07
09 Feb '07 - 19 Feb '07 to/from UK only
16 Feb '07 – 27 Feb '07 to/from Ireland only
15 Mar '07 - 20 Mar '07 to/from Ireland only

Remember with Ryanair you pay to check baggage in, it’s £7 per item each way if you do it at the airport and £3.50 if you pre-book. So if possible take hand luggage only.

Also, you’re charged handling fees for paying with a debit cards (70p) as well as credit cards (£1.75). This is per person, per flight, but if you’re able to; avoid these fees by paying with an Electron Card if you have one.

How to speedily find the specific flights

The FlightChecker is a special free, non-commercial tool on this site designed to find these special offer flights. Normally you enter in the maximum price you’re willing to pay; and the airports and date range and it finds the flights with you.

As that maximum price doesn’t include taxes and charges, for this promotion you should be looking for flights at UNDER £1. In fact, the result you want are the flights costing £0.01. Once you've found them go to Ryanair and double check your flight details, and the total price which includes taxes and charges.

There’s no hard or fast rule with this promotion; some 1p flights will come to £7, others more, but if you’re flexible with your dates and the airport you fly from, you’re likely to find a bargain.

Other flights

If you want flights further a field, then please read the main ‘Cheap Flight Finding’ article.

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Martin

NOTE WHEN YOU FIND A SUCCESSFUL £7 OR £8 COMBINATION PLEASE REPORT THE DETAILS BELOW SO OTHERS CAN BENEFIT. JUST CLICK REPLY

PS Environmental Note

I always do wrestle a touch when writing about cheap flights, as of course it isn’t the best thing for the environment. The aim is to show people how to find the flights or holidays they want more cheaply but not to encourage you to fly more often.

It’s worth having half a thought to this when you book. On of the list of things on my to do list is look at cheap ways to offset the environment impact of flying.

For now it's worth looking at Climate Care; it'll work out how much it would cost to offset carbon emissions and gives you the option of buying offsets.

saveapenny

great if you can pick up one of the £1 per room SC or HB £5 a nights
You could get a holiday for 2 people for £21
Worth booking the flight then hanging on for the Thomsons deals
https://www.thomsonhotelsandapartments.co.uk

Doozergirl

I've booked East Midlands to Dublin, Monday 13th - Wednesday 15th November because the hotel I found through lastminute.com is cheapest during the week.

There's absolutely loads of flights available for virtually any day, using the flightchecker to help.

I read Martin's note about credit card charges, promptly forgot and got stung for £7 instead of £2.80 if I'd used my debit card. I didn't see the charge mentioned at all until they'd already taken the money, so be careful! Not the end of the world though, Ho hum.

pdbmn

i'm trying to find a reasonably priced flight to Edinburgh from Doncaster, Leeds or East Midlands, no luck, just some ridiculous 3 figure quotes, usually only one way too; anyone have an idea where i could look and in case i can't find your reply could you PM me. would be big help, thanx.

Sam_Bee

pdbmn wrote:

i'm trying to find a reasonably priced flight to Edinburgh from Doncaster, Leeds or East Midlands, no luck, just some ridiculous 3 figure quotes, usually only one way too; anyone have an idea where i could look and in case i can't find your reply could you PM me, it would be big help, thanx.

What, where, why and when?

And why wouldn't www.thetrainline.com provide quicker, cheaper and more carbon friendly services for your route?

Lara

All very well saying they have flights for £2.49 each BUT they want £146 taxes!!!! Absolute rip off!! :mad: :mad:

toucanspeed

Sam_Bee wrote:

What, where, why and when?

And why wouldn't www.thetrainline.com provide quicker, cheaper and more carbon friendly services for your route?

and why is an empty train more enviromentally friendly?

MSE_Martin

All very well saying they have flights for £2.49 each BUT they want £146 taxes!!!! Absolute rip off!! :mad: :mad:

Hiya Lara,

As explained in the first post - the key is to look for the 0.01p flights most (not all) of which in the current promotion come up at £7 each way

Martin

tubbies74

I found the flights for 1p- each way but when the taxes were added it came to 87.00 for 3 people which at my reckoning should come to £21 each way making £42 total its nearly double am I doing something wrong

MSE_Martin

No tubbies you're not doing anythign wrong. This promotion is a peculiar one as there's no defined list of flights on promotion. As I note in my post

There’s no hard or fast rule with this promotion; some 1p flights will come to £7, others more, but if you’re flexible with your dates and the airport you fly from, you’re likely to find a bargain.

m.r.davies

Sam_Bee wrote:

What, where, why and when?

And why wouldn't www.thetrainline.com provide quicker, cheaper and more carbon friendly services for your route?

because a full plane is more efficent that a ford fiesta
and cheaper that train
and on time
...... shall i continue?