Urgent! European flights 1p inc. taxes

jinkssick

yeah, look at the cities marked 00.1, these are the only cities available.

youd have to be lenient and are flights between MON-THU til 27 oct 07

yeoyeo

17th July Depart East Midlands at 12.35
Arrive Dublin at 13.35

18th July Depart Dublin at 14.00
Arrive East Midlands at 15.00

PAYMENT DETAILS - I booked for 2
0.04 GBP Adult
8.00 GBP Taxes, Fees and Charges - Booking Fee (£2 each person each way)
8.04 Total Paid

Also have to pay £2.80 card fees for using a Visa Debit - don't know how you others got around this but I couldn't! If you use Visa Electron or Solo there is no charge.

All in all it's still only £10.84 for return flights to Dublin. I couldn't get them this cheap staying for more than one night, but planning on finding a hostel and just going for a wander around to see the place, then finding a nice restaurant and drinking lots of wine before flying back.

Cheaper than a return taxi to the nearest decent restaurant in rural Lincolnshire!

clegg_2

Just booked EMA to Dublin - 3rd-5th Spetember

PAYMENT DETAILS
*********0.04 GBP Adult
*********0.00 GBP Taxes, Fees & Charges
*********0.00 GBP Aviation / WCHR Levy
*********0.00 GBP Car Rental
*********0.00 GBP Insurance
*********0.04 GBP Total Paid

Can anyone tell me what size of bag you're allowed on the plane?

TBeckett100

cnvmackay wrote: »

I understand that this website is all about helping people to save money, and any logical person can see that these flights - at these low prices - are certainly doing that - saving money. But any logical person should also be able to see that this is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE - I cannot express how totally bewildering I find it, that people would so mindlessly jet off across the world when these flights ARE GOING TO DESTROY the very places they are travelling to. The ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE that this causes is DISGUSTING.

Do the right thing, and THINK ABOUT IT ,---go by train or dont go at all. Don't be so SELFISH as to think that you have the right to destroy the earth. Otherwise there will not be a planet left for our children to enjoy.

I have a theory which may come as a shock.

The plane will take off whether I book a seat on it or not. This means that Ryanair does not cancel planes because I am not booked on there. This is a silly strategy from Ryanair because I am God.

Failing this look at it another way. I take a holiday a month so my carbon footprint would be enough to scare big foot and the hendersons. However by making sure the planes run full, I am reducing the carbon footprint per head.

The carbon issue is a great concern, however we must put in context the actual damage done by aircraft which accounts for about 5-6% of the carbon output. However it may shock you to realise that more carbon emits from the rear end of a cow which is melting more ice than you can imagine.

We are being led to believe that the world is coming to an end now with global warming and what we are doing is causing problems. However I do recall that millions of years ago (i need to ask the mother in law to remember) half the planet was covered in Ice and Woolly Mammoths and global warming back then caused the ice caps to melt and the Mammoth to up sticks to heaven. This is called Evolution and not because the Mammoths smoked 50 fags a day and drove Range Rovers.

The world is warming, but new things will develop, animals will die and some will evolve. This is life.

TBeckett100

budgetflyer wrote: »

I would be interested to know what % of bookings actually click through https://www.ryanairhotels.com and hertz car hire after booking these cheap flights.

I read somewhere, 90% of easyjethotels bookings are from clicking through from the airline site. They are now the 5 biggest hotel booking company in UK.

I suspect ryanair are after a lot of this business. A £300 hotel and £100 car hire booking could be worth £50 + to them.

i think 90% of bookings are made on easyhotels after reading our free hotels thread on here. They havent 3/4 pulled the deal for nothing!

PandaPants_2

cnvmackay wrote: »

I understand that this website is all about helping people to save money, and any logical person can see that these flights - at these low prices - are certainly doing that - saving money. But any logical person should also be able to see that this is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE - I cannot express how totally bewildering I find it, that people would so mindlessly jet off across the world when these flights ARE GOING TO DESTROY the very places they are travelling to. The ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE that this causes is DISGUSTING.

Do the right thing, and THINK ABOUT IT ,---go by train or dont go at all. Don't be so SELFISH as to think that you have the right to destroy the earth. Otherwise there will not be a planet left for our children to enjoy.

Personally, i dont really care what happens after i die. Call me selfish, but thats how it goes!
Global warming happened well before we started "mindlessly" jetting off across the world you know. I also read that cows give off more emissions that humans, should we kill all the cows too? :rotfl:

Rachie_B

You CAN get the 1p flights during school holidays !!

I have booked Bristol - Dublin July 31st, 2 adults for 4p return :beer:

Only going for one night as 2 nights was a whopping £31 return :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

nah,it will be easier to get childcare ( and hubby time off work!) for one night 2 days as opposed to 2 nights 3 days

so we are flying out 7.55am on the Tues and leaving Dublin 8.45pm on the Wed so we get 2 days there really

Jamp

TBeckett100 wrote: »

....by making sure the planes run full, I am reducing the carbon footprint per head.

But the plane will be carrying more weight and so will use more fuel. I agree that the plane being full makes its journey more carbon efficient as there's less carbon per head. But as there's more carbon usage in total, and half the people on the plane are taking the journey because it was cheap, not because they actually needed/wanted to, that's not a particularly good argument.

TBeckett100 wrote: »

....it may shock you to realise that more carbon emits from the rear end of a cow which is melting more ice than you can imagine.

So are you vegetarian?


Ryanair are great and I don't complain at cheap flights (I've taken a few of the £/€10 (tax only) flights and I fly about once a fortnight (because I need or want to) so I shouldn't really preach. It's great if you wanted to take one of these flights and you've now got a bargain, but I disagree with them subsidising these 1p flights for people taking needless journeys.

peterbaker

cnvmackay wrote: »

I understand that this website is all about helping people to save money, and any logical person can see that these flights - at these low prices - are certainly doing that - saving money. But any logical person should also be able to see that this is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE - I cannot express how totally bewildering I find it, that people would so mindlessly jet off across the world when these flights ARE GOING TO DESTROY the very places they are travelling to. The ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE that this causes is DISGUSTING.

Do the right thing, and THINK ABOUT IT ,---go by train or dont go at all. Don't be so SELFISH as to think that you have the right to destroy the earth. Otherwise there will not be a planet left for our children to enjoy.

You of course have an extremely valid point here, cnvmackay. I am sadly an avid user of these cheap flights because my main relationship won't work without them. However I would agree that the relationship might never have got off the ground without Ryanair. Large scale economic immigration (and regular flights home) is also something that might not have been such a phenomenum without Ryanair.

I am not therefore the best respondent to your post because I am an unredeemed sinner, but I do believe your point is well made and should be considered by all.

This latest crazy promotion by Ryanair shows that Ryanair are not satisfied with current average person flight frequencies. Ryanair badly wants us all to travel many more times a year. That is planely, sorry plainly not green and means Michael O'Leary's spin on those Dutch figures he's been quoting this past year as evidence that he is the greenest airline in Europe is a totally insincere distortion of the big picture.

The big picture in Western Euorpe is blue skies at dawn and overcast skies by lunchtime, caused by clouds seeded by low-cost contrails. Never mind the invisible carbon spewed by the tonne, those contrails seeding cloud and merging into blanket overcast is perhaps the most directglobal-warming phenomenum you can actually see building daily with your eyes. The only other directly conspicuous phenomenum is the mountain-sized ice chunks falling off ice shelves at the poles, but you have to go there to see it, rather than just get up early to watch.

oysterman

Just booked flights from stansted to Dublin for 2 people.
09.35 arr dub 10.50 04/09
dep dub 16.50 arr stan 18.05 05/09 for 0.04p.

Can't be bad.