Poster: A snowHead
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Kel, good result - what can we all do but the best for ourselves?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Kel,
Well, like I said, if they got it wrong, then take advantage! Congratulations.
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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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Kel, I also did something similar. I booked with ryanair from Stanstead to Klagenfurt as soon as the flights came out for the half term week, I think for 39 one way and 49 the other, which plus taxes and all the rest came to around £130 per person. They're now around £360 per person. And so with 6 of us going, we saved £1400. I too feel very smug.
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Does anyone know if any of the easyjet winter flights have been released yet?
I've just checked for the ones I'm interested in, and they are still only on sale up until November 2008.
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Jumpin Jack, AFAIK only to November - I checked again last night. Jet 2 are out though, if any good for you? From memory last year, EJ were out in full by mid-end June
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I booked winter flights last year on the 29 June, so if they're released at the same time this year keep an eye on the websites over the next few weeks.
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Do you think we could set up some type of email list so we can all notify each other when the flights go on sale?
If anyone knows how to do these type of things I'd be willing to help!
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smudger, can I suggest you just click 'watch this topic for replies' at the bottom of this page and you will be notified by email when someone posts about flights being released.
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Helen Beaumont, thank you, I never realised that was there - I'm waiting for Easyjet for our Christmas flights too.
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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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Helen Beaumont wrote: |
smudger, can I suggest you just click 'watch this topic for replies' at the bottom of this page and you will be notified by email when someone posts about flights being released. |
Yeah, then you can get all excited when you see the email, only to find out the thread has been hijacked by a Euro vs Canada debate or the price of Ryanair flights ... helpful, not !
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masmith, keep on topic then................
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You know it makes sense.
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OK, stickied thread and changed title. I will be moderating off-topic posts.
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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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Well done Helen !
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Poster: A snowHead
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Can't one of teh script kiddies write a little executable to settle this. I think brian ran one last year every hour checking his preferred flights with it setting off an alarm when they became available?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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fatbob, no doubt they can, but I can't.
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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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I'm on it - should get a text message from a monitoring system as soon as the booking options include December 2008...
... but as always, if someone else can do the same in a different way, two monitors are always better than one
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ousekjarr, you'll be lucky. Most times you get the email days after the flights are on sale, so don't rely on that system.
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I'm not relying on any system run by Easyjet - I have a server which downloads their web page every 30 minutes, parses the content, and alerts me if the drop-down box to select the departure date includes December 2008, since it currently stops at November. The alert is sent by my server, which uses a directly attached modem to send a text message via Vodafone, which we also use to alert us if our servers misbehave. Scoff ye not...
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And they said there would never be a useful job for computers
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ousekjarr, wow. That's all I can say. And wow again.
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pam w, the geek shall inherit the earth (well, the cheap flights anyway )
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ousekjarr, my new best friend........lets keep this thread clear now until the big day arrives !
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BUT, IFIRC, EZ release each route on different dates will ousekjarr,'s 'puter spot this or just tell us when the first December flight appears and then ignore all the other route's ?
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The website has no code on the front page to handle differing release dates, so unless they add such code when they make the new flights available, it should be OK. The list of months available is a static list, hard-coded into the page, so I suspect that what happens is that the month list will be updated to show flights through to March/April, but selecting a route which hasn't been released yet will then return no available flights on the search page.
Some sites will query a database and update the page content based on what you select in the menus, but this doesn't appear to be one of them, so fingers crossed...
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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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yeh it should work, sounds a similiar principle to Brians script which worked fine!
I'd suggest booking your flights before telling anyone else first though ousekjarr,
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Flights now bookable until March '09.
GO
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Poster: A snowHead
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Not all routes though. Luton and Stansted to Geneva aren't but EMA is.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ah shucks the new dates are on there but it doesn't let you get any prices even-says this route is only available until 28th October 2008 etc etc
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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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No, not all routes. Some.
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no late wed flight to gva from east mids (last year dep. EMA 18:30), wonder if this has been canned or may appear later ?
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That was quick - my script just notified me that they became available sometime between 1730 and 1800....
I may be able to work out a way to check for specific routes next week - there's a list of routes and availability dates on the page which I can interrogate, but its not simple and I'm going away for the weekend in 10 minutes...
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Is it me? Looking for Liverpool - Geneva and it allows me to put the dates in (Jan 09) for that route, but then tells me that the route is only available up to November
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Bristol flights are avaiable
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Bristol flights are avaiable
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riverman, are Bristol flights available ?
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masmith, Yes and Yes
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