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Just got the mail, prices already a bit silly though !
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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sooooooo depressing.... Already over £300 for half term week.
Think I'll walk 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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jayne durham, take the train ?
Oh and it's only Luton so far
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Just checked and their are Gatwick flights now but tehy are expensive already for geneva
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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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Was just waiting DG to see how much easyjet was... will probably take the train I think ... but eurostar havent released yet.
By the way - dont know what Easyjet website was doing - but you could book flights for Gatwick from first thing this morning if you selected "all london" airports... But if you keyed in Gatwick at the first stage - it told you they werent available.... bizarre.
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jayne durham, I'd say that sums up easyjet, P.S the dreaded SCGB are offering £120 deals on the Eurostar ski train, tickets go on sale on July the 5th
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Thanks - seem more expensive than last year. Booked for January, will now try for March 
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DG - thanks - trouble is it says the dreaded word "from" £120 on the website... looking at last year eurostar was more like 200.... ??? I'll phone tomorrow morning..
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jayne durham, I doubt they will give you any further details till that July 5th date
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Crikey!!
Just checked our dates (4 trips) on Easyjet....I am very very glad that I didn't wait for them to release their winter schedule!
Booking early with BA, Alitalia and Swiss was a LOT cheaper than a so-called "budget" airline.
I really do mean a LOT cheaper!
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Easyjet £324
Swiss £130
Shurely shome mishtake? Which is the "cheap airline"?
THey are extracting the donkey's...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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David Murdoch, I thought Swiss were now a budget airline??
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There seems to be a lot more variation in Easyjet's prices from one day to the next, often without any apparent pattern. If you have flexibility in dates you can save a fair bit of cash. Our original dates with Easyjet gave us a price of £152, but by moving the outbound flight from a Friday to a Sunday, and the inbound from a Sunday to a Tuesday we got our flight for £78.
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You know it makes sense.
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I assumed it was all to do with how quickly the (limited/variable) number of cheap seat allocations on a given flight are taken up?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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PG, I'm sure it's just supply and demand type equation, but I was surprised to see Saturday flights cheaper than Sunday, and Friday being more expensive than both.
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brian
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rob@rar.org.uk, It depends on the dates. At half terms, holidays etc the Saturday flights are the most expensive. At other times in the season the weekend trip flights (out Friday, back Sunday) get more expensive.
Last October we went out to Barcelona with Ryanair and it turned out a fair bit cheaper to fly Mon-Mon and pay extra to the villa owner than go Sat-Sat.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Quite ironically, the panel where you enter your details is headed with the phrase
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"Cheap" does not seem to be a good term for them this year, I am really saddened at their prices. They have really increased the prices for the Saturday/Saturday bookings and any long weekends.
Have to hope that Ryanair will do better ...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Elizabeth B, depends on what you mean by budget. They still offer business class and full service economy minus the dreadful food. And their business model is not that of Queasyjet or Tryanscair's...
Easy used to have a formal policy that their most expensive seat on any comparable/competitive route would never be more than 60% of that competitors. That was some (7 or 8?) years ago. Clearly their pricing for the last few years is based on a large enough percentage of their client base being too stupid to shop around assuming easyjet will be cheapest. If you can fool enough of the people often enough...
For the leisure routes/times/dates that I typically need, then BA or Swiss - actually any "normal" airlines are invariably better value. Oddly, Easyjet are often better for business travel.
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Sat 25-06-05 1:42; edited 1 time in total
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http://www.skyscanner.net/
Try this website for comparisons of flights etc. Found it really useful in the past. Don’t have to book thru them can just use it for research.
Rgds
Rich
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DAVID SNELL, Airmiles definitely a good idea, although must say that BAmiles almost entirely useless.
I appreciate the thought but London to Champoluc (for example) by car not terribly effective for two day weekends.
And, actually, thinking about it, it (the point you make) can't be getting through (to the great unwashed) though as presumably Easyjet do expect/intend to sell some some seats at these egregious prices?? Or am I missing a point? (Happens often...)
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DAVID SNELL, and another thought/question; I was not aware that Easyjet ever reduced prices (except in Sale!! mode). I haven't seen it happen myself anyway - whereas I do see "regular" carriers selling off what I guess are "distressed" seats. Which is the whole disappointing thing (sorry, veers off topic) about the whole Last Minute Dot Didn't thing. If they HAD managed to contract with agencies/operators to specialise in distressed product, it might actually have lived up to it's name.
"I had an e-mail from that Martha Lane-Fox bird in the back of me cab once"
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