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Travel and Accommodation => Flights and Travel => Topic started by: Tatilde on September 03, 2014, 10:31:24 AM
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Just booked flights for April next year. One way Stansted to Dalaman, £46 each. Released flights only go up to the end of May.
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Also released are Manchester and Gatwick.
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Easyjet took 6 weeks to tell me june onwards flights for next year are being released in mid October!!( I had reminder set up last year but they told me flights were for sale 2 weeks after I had booked with them!!) ::) .. I still believe nothing EJ say!! PAH!! I say! and double PAH!
I have now booked with BA very competitive price too! ;)..pity BA don't fly to Dalaman from more places ..I guess they will eventually?
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So annoying that they cant release all the flights at the same time.....but at least we wont have to book two seperate flights for next year as we have done the past two years due to the way they release them.
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Just booked the first Easyjet flight of the season out of Manchester, to get to Kalkan just in time for Easter. Is anyone else planning to be there at the same time?
Last Easter the old town streets were pretty grim due to the delayed road works. Let's hope the plans for the new harbour front don't go ahead at the end of this season which could result in some disruption for early visitors.
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Just booked Easter - thanks for the tip-off! ;D
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Tatilde
Thanks for the tip off, we have just booked for Easter at £122 per head. Definitely worth a few beers if we are ever in Kalkan at the same time.
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I'll look forward to that! I'm in Kalkan now. When are you next here?
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So pleased I booked returns with BA 2 months ago. Less stress and less money.
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May outward flights from Edinburgh booked! But will have to wait to next month to book our return flights. Ah well, at least I know we'll definitely get to Kalakn next year...yay!!!
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Just booked our flights too. Out 18th April back 2nd May. Bristol. Under £200 for both of us. Return. Happy Days :)
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Regular followers of moaning Minnie aka babs will know that I was wingeing about having to alter our dates to May half term next year....well......by bring our days forward a day so we are coming back on Friday instead of Saturday I managed to save us over £1000 for four flights!!! Return flights for £130 each.......as I've said before, no wonder people take their children out of school!!
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Our flights have gone up over 60% since this morning when I booked them!
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I'll look forward to that! I'm in Kalkan now. When are you next here?
Sadly you will have to wait a while for those drinks, we are next over in April (10th-18th) and probaly July (11th-28th).
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Anyone got any idea when EJ release flights for September 2015?
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They told me Mid Oct for the next block of dates(took 5 weeks to reply >:()...best check everyday it must be soon if previous years are to go by(1st /2nd week oct last year) I've given up waiting this year and booked BA ;)
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Apart from EJ - has anyone noticed that Monarch flights from Luton are all over the place?
Most of the flights take off at half-past-doesn't-exist and arrive such that you'll be asleep for most of your first day.
They also often don't fly back on the same day they fly out - which is really handy and shows someone hasn't joined the dots!
Other airports seem unaffected, but I also heard a rumour that Exclusive Escapes wanted a monopoly on some flights.
At least if we fly from somewhere other than Luton, we shouldn't have to wait nearly two hours for them to get the bags off the aircraft (for the last 4 years!!!); and will probably have more than one man to wheel people needing assistance.....
Come Back Lorraine!! >:D
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My daughter has had to book a combination of Monarch and Thomas Cook flights for next year to get the flights they want ed from Birmingham......fortunately they are within an hour of ours with easyjet from gatwick so we will be able to share transfers......always assuming there are no time changes!
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Good Luck with Thomas Cook.
You'll possibly need it (plus patience, stoicism and patience...!!!)
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Hi Forum,
Can anyone give me a ballpark figure for Easyjet return from Manchester early June ? I'm going for 3 weeks from 1st June 2015 & never been on the ball enough to get Easyjet when they're first released. But at the moment, though lousy times, I can get Monarch for ~£240 including 23kg luggage. I don't do 'capsule wardrobe' packing (the ladies will understand what I mean) :D
I can't decide whether to risk it going up by the day gambling on Easyjet being better prices. I'm sure the combined experiences of the Forum members can help me.
Thanks,
Lucy-Lou
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Last year for exactly the same time we paid £160 return (for 3 weeks) including extra leg room seats but not luggage. We added that later - 26kg of hold luggage was I think £26 each way (I'm not a capsule wardrobe packer either...)It is less for lighter cases obvs... The easyJet flight times from Manchester are pretty rubbish but we don't travel with cranky kids anymore so it doesnt bother us.
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Hi kalkan4eva,
Love your name ! I retired just over 12 months ago & am trying to save money on flights so will hold my nerve & look daily to catch them being released. But that is a significant difference & not having to stick to precise days or be compos mentis for work on return the times aren't too much of a problem.
Thanks,
LL
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Lucky you being retired :)
Also check on here every day as when they are released someone will also post on here. If you buy them the first day, they are much cheaper...as I say we choose our extra leg room seats when we book and add the hold luggage nearer the time. You can add the weight of the case based on your packing skills up to 24hrs before your flight. Good luck :)
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It probably worth hanging on for a couple of more weeks, most years Easyjets summer flights are released in mid-late October.
We usually manage to get our July return flights from Easyjet at between £90 if we are on the site before 9:30) and £150 (if we don't notice the flights have gone live until lunchtime).
For June they would be a bit cheaper.
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Hi alantj,
Blue Lizard had said earlier in the thread they were released early to mid October so just getting a bit twitchy. If they're released at a sensible time (9am not middle of the night) and they're such a saving I will continue my patient wait but check daily !
Thanks
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Easy jet flights from May until 5th September are now out. Just booked flight to Naples for June and await flights for Dalaman for a September break.
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out for dalaman as well now
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Brilliant pricing from LGW if you can go on the right days. £46 on 27 Aug 2015. So glad that I didn't book BA earlier.
MAN flights up too but, a little pricier.
STN super cheap.
Fill one's footwear.
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Thanks very much for posting.
July flights booked all 3 of us return for £245, even better the cheapest days were exactly the ones we wanted.
Regards
Alan
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Just checked for us with easyjet and damn those school holidays!!! - £1795.25 for 4 of us without bags, seats etc in August! Monarch and Thomas Cook coming out a bit cheaper for us. You lot are so lucky getting those bargains. Although I'm sure you've been in our position yourselves at some point. It's awful having to go at the hottest and priciest time of year. Even getting time off work is a hassle when people resent you for always wanting the school holidays, even if they don't need/want them and don't understand the need to book in advance to try to get the flights a little cheaper. :-[
Grrr!!! Rant over and well done with your cheap flights, hopefully we will be in your position someday. :)
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Ours were £150 each (including extra leg rooms seats), travelling on a Sunday, instead of a Monday. £10 cheaper than last year. Result!!! Sorry Lizilu - yes we've done the kid thing and one days soon you will be able to choose when you go. Having said that the last time we brought them to Kalkan they were all adults and we had to come July/August to fit in with our son's fixed holidays :(
Set the countdown App....
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Hi All,
I booked before 9am & didn't get as big a bargain as I hoped but £70 cheaper than Monarch. Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. :laugh: I think the problem is going a/ from Manchester b/ still in end of school holidays. Kalkan4eva you really did get best prices, lucky you. What time are they actually released out of curiosity ? The past few evenings I've looked off & on through till midnight or later depending on when I've gone to bed. Last night I didn't bother after 8pm ???
But all sorted for next June. Can you get the countdown app for Blackberry ?
LL ;D
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Lucy Lou, I've been in back to back meetings all morning and when I checked my phone at around 12.30 I saw I had an email from easyJet saying the flights had been released. Sat in my car and booked them there and then. Second website I visited was EK to let everyone know but the news was already out, so just posted what we booked. We are travelling from Manchester on Sunday 7th June and returning on Sunday 28th June, no luggage added yet. Not sure if you've booked seats and luggage which would make your seats more of a bargain :)
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We booked at 7.00am this morning, after checking the website daily every few hours. Got flights to Dalaman and back from Stansted for £112 pounds each. We only take hand luggage so have no worries about hold baggage. We also booked 24th August for £27.99 each only one way though as anything after 5th September has not yet been released. We will still have to be eagle eyed as to when the next batch are released as the last time we did it in two bits we booked the return late and got hammered.
I feel for all the summer school holiday people, we paid those extortionate prices for years, when the boys were at school and then as I was a teacher we were still stuck with holiday times. However now retired we are reaping the benefits.
The spring bank holiday always seems one of the most expensive, I looked out of interest and the flights were hovering around £500 mark!!
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Arrived in Kalkan about 45 minutes ago. Why did they choose today to release their flights!
April flight out already booked, so I've booked Stansted in July and out to Dalaman again in August. Probably cost more than first thing this morning, but never mind.
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We too have to go in peak season because of work, but got excited at £125 going out at the end of July, but the return journey one way on 31st August is £414! each!!! never mind, we will keep looking ::) ::) ::), but happy for you all that have managed to get a cheap deal :D
Lizzie, maybe we could go via Rhodes as slightly cheaper, but only just, we had actually been looking at that route too, and then a ferry from Rhodes to Fethiye! 8)
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Kalkan4eva,
23kgs luggage, no seats as I'm a solo traveller. It is a very good price, only once by fluke got a relatively last minute left over flight from Jewel in the Crown at £199 but last couple of flights have been over £300 And that's foregoing the reasonable times I used to insist on and avoid school holidays like the plague ! In fact it seems there are fewer & fewer 'nice' times by any carrier from Manchester. I think I got greedy after reading that people got RETURN flights at £50.
If I didn't want to go specifically to Kalkan and in a hotel I really like I'm sure I could get better bargains i.e., take pot luck about where to go and/or where to stay. Which used to be my theory of how I'd make the most of retirement freedom but I'm too fussy - about lots of things apparently ;D my closest friends seem to think.
Lucy Lou