Poster: A snowHead
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Is there anywhere where I can see the 18/19 easy jet flight time schedule or do I have to wait until realesed this week? I am most interested in the aberdeen geneva route.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Tickets for flights between 28th October 2018 and 3rd February 2019 will go on sale later this week on Thursday, 12th April 2018.
This period of course covers Christmas 2018 and New Year 2018/19.
Then two weeks later on Thursday 26th April 2018 the airline will put tickets valid from 4th February – 24th March 2019 on sale, covering the peak February 2019 half-term ski holiday period.
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@RichClark, handy to know, thanks
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Bump - tickets now on sale! I've my xmas/NY flights booked - though I was a little slow, and so one was about £30 dearer than if I'd been up earlier
I can't book anything else at the moment, not so far out. But I'll try to start planning...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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26th dec - 6 Jan £80 return
19th Jan weekend £42.50 return
26th Jan weekend £56 return
excellent VFM
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I've spent less than £200 on my first three trips, one of them over New Year. Result.
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Southampton Geneva out today - £23.00~
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@fixx, do they release them just after midnight? Just wondering if it is worth waiting up to get the ones released on the 26th?
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Typical - this year they did a Saturday flight suitable for the BirthdayBash which I wasn't aware of and had better timing than RyanAir. It's not running on a Saturday next year.
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do they release them just after midnight?
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Yes, IME. And yes, worth waiting up.
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My flights to Manchester from GVA (21 Dec, 28 Dec) have gone from 128 this morning at 6.20 CET to £276. Of course it I lived near London I could still do it for £100. Expensive to live down south - Pah.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@trmacc, They were not up at 0400CET but were at 0620.
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good to know, thanks all.
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You know it makes sense.
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I booked my lot at 7am and many flights were at the minimum £26. From seat choices, I was the first to book on most flights.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I waited up til just after 1am but they hadn't appeared yet, so I went to bed. Happened to wake up at 6.15am and they were out by then - £40 Edinburgh to Geneva (price went up from £36 during booking) and £22 for the return flight (Saturday, off peak).
By midday they were up to about £40-50 each way. Less popular routes hadn't increased so much though.
Saved £10-40 per person compared to previous years (when we booked a few weeks or months later), so not a big saving but every little helps!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Is it also time to buy a few euros as the rate is over 1.15 at the moment?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Tignes addict, iirc currency speculation is the most elite of all the trading desks so I while I'd also love to know the answer to your question, I wouldn't take any notice of any answer I saw on a public forum.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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A couple of questions,
Is there a limit to the number of tickets in a single purchase?
And do they immediately become available on Skyscanner or do you have to buy them direct?
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Ooooh - Should I stay up until midnight or just set the alarm for about 6am? Need to book two different trips.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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You couldn't script it!
Got up early to book some flights only to find the site is down for maintenance
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Yep also got up early. Website up now. Just got half term flights Thursday evening coming back following Monday £242 for 4 of us London / Geneva. Prices for Friday coming back following Sunday already v expensive.
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Booked at 6am MAN to Milan for Feb half term Sat to Sunday £481 for 2 adults and 1 teen, seats and 23kg booked in bags, price went up by £4.71 during the start of booking and final payment, cheeky boogers! I guess once your nearly there it's easy for them to squeak another few quid per booking.
It's about £30 more expensive PP than this year, but for half term weekend flights I'm Happy.
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At 625 return to Innsbruck is 800pp and I thought it would be good value
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Just gone back on line, same flights now showing at £791 plus seats and bags, £400 increase in 45 mins
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Checked at about 5.40. Luton to Geneva on a morning flight was about £400 pp now about £600pp. Last year we booked return flights at about 10am for £100pp. We’re booking a family of 4 and a family of 6.
No thanks, easyJet. Might have to drive this time.
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As I've pointed out elsewhere on here, for £250/person you can have 2 return trips on BA in the season, on any dates you want, including baggage. That seems cheaper than most Easyjet fares for the peak week(s). Clearly doesn't work quite so well if you only go once!
My understanding, as I've flagged before, is that Easyjet's pricing algorithm changed last year, and no longer starts cheap on known peak weeks. I believe it always used to start low and look at sales velocity to determine how much and how fast to ramp prices, but now it incorporates prior year(s) experience to determine the starting point.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@geoffknight, I paid £161 for two incl baggage last year to Milan for half term in June. But half term split different weeks between North and South last year.
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snowdave wrote: |
As I've pointed out elsewhere on here, for £250/person you can have 2 return trips on BA in the season, on any dates you want, including baggage. That seems cheaper than most Easyjet fares for the peak week(s). Clearly doesn't work quite so well if you only go once! |
Some mistake, surely. Everyone knows that BA are expensive while Easyjet and Ryanair are cheap.
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You know it makes sense.
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best I have managed is Edinburgh - Geneva for £56.68 return.....
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@snowdave, can you point me to this £250 PP for 2 return flights promo?
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Jonny996, Not a promo as such, more an ongoing thing. Effectively you pre-purchase flights on a given route for a given booking window (e.g. 14 Jan-13 April) at a flat price per ticket, irrespective of the actual flight price on the date that you use the tickets. The cheapest you can get them is about £100/person return if you buy a lot of flights. I'm surprised more people on here don't use it - for anyone who's a regular on a particular route (e.g. LHR-EDI, or LGW-GVA) it can be a fantastic deal.
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=137668
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Jonny996 wrote: |
best I have managed is Edinburgh - Geneva for £56.68 return..... |
I've booked a whole season of flights and haven't paid £100 rtn for any of them. Best was £45 rtn.
Do we know when flights after 24th March are released?
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Gatwick to Innsbruck 16/2 to 23/2 are now going for £1000 each
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I was looking to book 4 at 5:30am today and they would have been £2300. So we're going a different route.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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out of interest, did anyone on here manage to book a bargain for Bristol/Geneva feb half term 2019 (early morn sat 16th - late eve 23rd).
i looked at 7am this morning, i do it every year to justify to the OH why we do not fly as a family of 4, and they were going for £550pp without seat choice/baggage etc, now have gone up an extra £50 each.
yes, they could be achieved slightly cheaper (about -£50 each), but that would be going out late and coming back early, so would minimise time on the slopes.
am just asking to see if there are bargains to be had, or if so is it only one or two seats, then they rocket up.
or as @snowdave, says, do they not bother anymore as they know it is a captive market. if i had needed to fly, it would have totalled up to about £2600 or so, by the time you add in baggage/airport parking/transfer of car hire other end, whereas approx £800 to drive (including overnight hotels each way) and get 8 precious days on the slopes.
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Gutted as I was waiting for a Birmingham-Grenoble flight with EJ but they appear not to be running this service for 2019
I looked at Bristol and Liverpool as options which worked out at about £160 return. By the time id waited till 6 to call our friends to book this the prices had more than doubled!
Does anyone know if the Birmingham flight is going to be released or not.
Alternatively has anyone done Eurostar to Lyon ? roughly how much is this ?
We have already booked accommodation for 16th-23rd Feb2019.
I may still have to take the car .......
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@holte43, I pay P&O £36 each way. The tolls and diesel cost a bit more....
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Do we know when flights after 24th March are released?
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Website says October, no specific date.
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jarjer wrote: |
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Do we know when flights after 24th March are released?
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Website says October, no specific date. |
Flights for after 24th March are released on 20th Sept.
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@Handy Turnip, thanks!!
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