Finding Airports to travel from

maxwanadoo

K3lvc: That skyscanner works great now. However, it throws up a discrepancy between the flights it shows and those shown on the matrix site. Still, it is the best yet.
I get the feeling that this is probably the one I will use.
Thanks to all for their input - it is much appreciated.

Any ideas of how to find packaged tours? eg, with hotels and flights etc.

Max

Obviously_the_best

https://www.onthebeach.co.uk and https://www.lowcostholidays.com let you search by region of the UK, other than that pretty much the only way to do that sort of thing with a packaged tour is by walking into a Thomson shop. The reason I say Thomson is they seem to fly from the most regional airports.


However, I'd find the flights, then use https://www.trivago.co.uk for a hotel, and either https://www.suntransfers.com or https://www.alpharooms.com/transfersearch for transfers. Much more flexibility that way.

maxwanadoo

OTB: Thanks very much for the links. Most useful.

Blue264

Try this site. I use it all the time at work...

http://www.flightmapping.com/

maxwanadoo

Blue264: thank you.

fifeken

Look at the Wikipedia entry for the destination airport and it will list all the destinations from there and what airline flies each route.

maxwanadoo

fifeken: that is good lateral thinking. thank you.

jackieblack

fifeken wrote: »

Look at the Wikipedia entry for the destination airport and it will list all the destinations from there and what airline flies each route.

So will the destination airport's own website, but that suggestion was rejected :huh:

maxwanadoo

Jackieblack: No, Not rejected Jackie. It is all very good advice. In the case of fifeken I was merely pointing out that it was a good lateral-thinking idea. I didn't say whether it was rejected or accepted (if that is the right terminology) only that it was 'thinking outside the box'.
I hope I haven't upset you.
Max