Airlines exploting monopoly?

henchard1

DTDfanBoy wrote: »

So due to demand from the football fans they have sold all of their cheap seats and are charging a premium for the few they have left. That doesn't seem to be any different to any other airline to be honest.

If you have a look at flight prices from other Scottish cities to Dublin you'll see exactly the same peak in prices

Thanks. Yep, just worse here as it's the one flight. All the best.

bagand96

henchard1 wrote: »

Thanks. Yep, just worse here as it's the one flight. All the best.

It's no worse. Ryanair from Glasgow are £200 return. The weekend before is £45. Same story at Edinburgh. Percentage wise a bigger increase than the ANZ flights (although admittedly from a lower base).

Birmingham, East Midlands, Liverpool, Leeds, Luton, Stansted and London City, Manchester all have fares under £60 on your dates. Might be worth investigating if it's plausible to travel via one of those.

GRM

If the flights for that weekend were regulated in the way you'd like them to be and artificially kept down to a level that meets your threshold of not greedy, it's pretty certain there would be no seats left for your wedding guests to buy - the sports fans would have bought them all.

catwoman73

It's just your bad luck that your wedding coincides with a major sporting event.

Have you looked at the hotel rates, as chances are they'll have been booked up or gone up massively as well.

You've as much chance of getting the date of the match changed as you have getting any redress out of Aer Lingus.

Is there any way you could change the date of the wedding instead?

Obviously_the_best

Have you looked at Inverness to Dublin?

budgetflyer

Hire a coach for all who want to go.