Turning up at airport for cheap flights/short break?

Yorky1

*Urgent request*

I'm thinking about a short European break this Tuesday (tomorrow) or Wednesday for two people.

We're not really bothered where we go as long as it's cheap! Is it possible to just turn up at the airport and get an unsold /cancellation/no show?

I realise there's a risk that nothing will be available!

Has anyone done this. Would be grateful for any details of experience and/or advice.

Thanks in advance

tomtontom

This type of last minute deal no longer exists. If you turn up at the airport any flight will be very expensive.

Yorky1

Any suggestions :-( ?

tomtontom

Where are you based and what is your budget? City break in the UK?

Do you have any airmiles/ Avios?

richardw

Use skyscanner and pick everywhere as the destination for the flights. Book direct with the airline.

Then use hotelscombined and hotelscomparison websites for the hotel.

Pincher

Unsold packaged holidays are still cheap last minute.

Sadly, Egypt and Israel are only for the brave, and so cheap.

Now, ISIS immune options:

https://www.airchina.co.uk/GB/GB/promotion/flights/

Travel 7th Feb to 19th June 2016!

£370 return to Taiwan!
£425 to Seoul or Tokyo

By the way, don't book the flight without finding a hotel. No hotel is no joke.

Gloomendoom

http://www.holidaypirates.com ?

DKLS

tomtontom wrote: »

This type of last minute deal no longer exists. If you turn up at the airport any flight will be very expensive.

Thats a shame, I used the standby flights and got great deals, less than £20 to go to Tenerife and Barcelona.

leylandsunaddict

DKLS wrote: »

Thats a shame, I used the standby flights and got great deals, less than £20 to go to Tenerife and Barcelona.

Very few standby tickets. Most flights these days are overbooked.

rdone

I always use skyscanner and the everywhere option. We went to Riga and Tallinn last October and can definitely recommend them, flights were cheap. We're also going to Sofia and Skopje next month and the flights were £13.99 each way. Can't comment on what they're like though! We've been to most of the major cities in Europe so let me know if you have any questions.

I always use booking.com to book hotels and go through topcashback. Let us know what you find!

DKLS

leylandsunaddict wrote: »

Very few standby tickets. Most flights these days are overbooked.

Shame the models have changed it was always exciting pitching up at the airport not knowing where you would end up, I think the longest I had to wait was 4 hours before something interesting came available.