Ryanair Free Flights again (Travel in Sep/Oct)

pboae

I am still getting sent to this:

THE CHEAPEST FARES TO THE SUN!

Fares include taxes, fees & charges
Booking Period ue 10th Jul 07 - Thu 12th Jul 07
Travel Period:Wed 01st Aug 07 - Wed 12th Mar 08
Applicable Days:Mon - Thurs & Sat
Subject To Availability
Flight must be purchased:14 Days in advance
Blackout Period:19th Oct '07 - 04th Nov '07
18th Dec '07 - 08th Jan '08
08th Feb '08 - 18th Feb '08 to/from UK
15th Feb '08 - 25th Feb '08 to/from Ireland
Notes on this fare All Holidays, School Breaks and Major Sporting Events are excluded from this offer

brix_2

pboae wrote: »

I am still getting sent to this:

THE CHEAPEST FARES TO THE SUN!

Fares include taxes, fees & charges
Booking Period ue 10th Jul 07 - Thu 12th Jul 07
Travel Period:Wed 01st Aug 07 - Wed 12th Mar 08
Applicable Days:Mon - Thurs & Sat
Subject To Availability
Flight must be purchased:14 Days in advance
Blackout Period:19th Oct '07 - 04th Nov '07
18th Dec '07 - 08th Jan '08
08th Feb '08 - 18th Feb '08 to/from UK
15th Feb '08 - 25th Feb '08 to/from Ireland
Notes on this fare All Holidays, School Breaks and Major Sporting Events are excluded from this offer

i'm getting this now, after having had the other page. they're really cocking up tonight! i'll try again tomorrow, i think!

pboae

Yeah same here, thanks anyway!

brix_2

well, i just checked 'find lowest fares' from stansted to trieste on weds 3rd oct and returning the 10th and it comes up with a load of reg fares for 0.01p and when you choose a flight, it's totalling the 0.02 including taxes and fees. so not free, but 2p!!

Donnie

Just booked a day trip to Italy in September for £0.02p.

Graham_Lee_2

You'll get your 2p refunded at the airport.

As someone said above it's REG FARES that have no tax, not WEB FARES.

angel

Graham_Lee wrote: »

You'll get your 2p refunded at the airport.

As someone said above it's REG FARES that have no tax, not WEB FARES.

So how so we get the "ABSOLUTELY FREE" REG FARES that are offered in the email?

PBA

To add to brix's post:

From Luton:

Reus
Knock

From Bournemouth:

Dublin
Glasgow
Madrid
Marseliie
Nantes
Shannon

From Doncaster:

Dublin
Pisa

From East Midlands:

Berlin
Derry
Inverness
Knock
Madrid
Nantes
Nimes
Pisa
Riga
Rimini
Shannon
Valencia

From Glasgow:

Stansted
Oslo
Riga
Shannon

From Liverpool:

Cork
Oslo
Riga
Santander
Santiago de Compostela
Shannon
Stockholm
Wroclaw

Most of the other airports they fly to have free flights to one of their Irish airports (either Dublin or Shannon).

Parisien

Still aint found any......:(....how many others have been successful?

PBA

I've just realised, there's a bit more to this offer than it appears at first glance. Firstly, there's a shedload of free destinations from Dublin which aren't free from the UK airports. You could, however, buy a free ticket from your local airport to Dublin, and another free ticket from Dublin to wherever you wanted to end up. This is Ryanair, and they wouldn't compensate you if you missed the connection because the first flight was late, so take travel insurance if going for this idea!

Second, some destinations seem to have free tickets available for flights to the UK, but aren't listed for free flights from the UK (I spotted Brno, Maribor and Vienna, but I'm sure there's more). To get these, you need to book a return from wherever you want to go to the UK (the first flight being before you need to go, and the return for when you want to leave the UK), and then a separate single flight for you to get back to the UK. Then phone Ryanair and cancel the flight you won't be using. Most airlines wouldn't let you do this, but it's ok on Ryanair.

In order to check which destinations have free flights available to the UK, you need to change which country's site you're in. There's a dropdown in the top right hand corner of the site to do this. The eastern European countries are all in English, but the western European countries are in their native languages. The site is the same format for each one, so shouldn't be too hard to find your way around!