cheapest flights? recomendations?

[Nak Muay]

Hi just wondered if anyone can recomend me how to get a good deal on my flights november 30th ???

 

from birmingham

 

as i keep looking and best is about 450 i cn find booking for just one!!!

 

maybe someone can help me out i may be missing a trick here???

 

thanks

 

JJ

Edited July 3, 2009 by ju5t

[luv.you.long.time]

Hi just wondered if anyone can recomend me how to get a good deal on my flights in december ???

 

from birmingham

 

as i keep looking and best is about 450 i cn find booking for just one!!!

 

maybe someone can help me out i may be missing a trick here???

 

thanks

 

JJ

 

You could try giving a specialist asian travel centre in London a call

 

www.westeasttravel.com/

 

I've booked with them a couple of times and can often beat many of the deals.

 

Other than that, if you want to take a gamble, when airlines struggle to fill seats, they will probably release superb deals around Oct/Nov if you are flying in Dec/Jan.

 

Also, have a look at Singapore Air website. They recently released a fabulous offer on all flights for the coming year. You may still be able to get cheap tickets for December.

 

I booked up with Singapore for my trip in Feb. It was 400 return from Scotland. The actual ticket price was £90, the rest was all in airport charges. Bargain !

[BITTERBLUE]

Thanks for the info.......have added singapore and the www.westeasttravel.com/ to my research flights list.

 

If i come up with anything of interest to everyone else i will post immediately.

 

I booked my November trip with emirates.......you may want to check their website out as well but i always fly from Manchester.

 

I will check out the suggestions made.

 

Thanks

 

 

Blue

[Nak Muay]

Thanks for thaat reply very usefull, keep the info comming guys this website RULEZ thank u bryan!!!!!!!!

 

couple more questions to add.....

 

is it best to book late then?? is there a way to check seating on flights as last thing i want is to have to pay over the odds for booking toooo late

[Mavrick]

Try your dates on kayak.com or Emirates or Etihad direct.

[hedonist]

Has anyone else noticed how the sub £400 deals have all but disappeared?

Hope its only for the time being !!!!!!

I tend to look "on spec" at any dates between Sept09-April10 and cheapest i can find easily is £450

I DID find a few though............these had stopovers of 24 or more hours in some cases !!!!!!

 

Hedonist

[Nak Muay]

yeah i did notice im sure i found a few for 400-410 only a month ago !!!

 

which is another reason i ask!!!

[S C]

I usually go direct to airline site.

 

Sometimes Expedia has better fares.

 

Each travel site could have the best deal at any given moment.

 

S C

[Nak Muay]

Thanks SC i have been regularly checking netflights, ebookers, expedia and money supermarket

 

and recently kayak and emirates

 

all seem to be approx the same at the mo just about 5-8 pounds difference on the total prices!!!

[luv.you.long.time]

I've just received an email from WestEastTravel for their latest promotion with Eva Airlines. The price is from July - December 2009.

 

£404 (LHR - BKK - LHR)

£560 as above but a premium economy seat.

 

I had a look on Netflights and they are showing December flights for £420.

 

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To answer the point about when to buy your ticket......well, this is query will always be an issue every year. No one knows is the answer. You will get deals all the time coming up, but then, the problem is.....What if they don't come quick enough and you end up paying 70% more than if you booked the decent prices you were viewing a few months ago ???

 

The way I do it is I have a figure in my head of what I would be happy to pay (from Scotland, that figure is £440-520 ish) I tend not to pay more than that and if I see something in the 400 mark, I'll just book it. Luckily enough for me, one of the BMs posted about Singapore Airlines deals being released and I got mines for £400. It doesn't get any better than that (from Scotland).

 

My advise would be to just get a price in your head that you are content on paying and keep an eye 2-3 times a week on the net. Once that figure is showing, just book it. That way, you can make plans to secure hotel rooms etc.

[wackyjacky]

ju5t: Check out Eva's HOT-E-FARES. You should be able to get Deluxe-Elite for steerage prices. Fares get a lot cheaper closer to departure date. wj

Edited July 4, 2009 by wackyjacky

[Nak Muay]

thanks its all helpful i haev done the opposite secured my room already for a month and looking for the flights ready for a 3 and a half week stay

[luv.you.long.time]

thanks its all helpful i haev done the opposite secured my room already for a month and looking for the flights ready for a 3 and a half week stay

 

The only problems I have found with that in the past is that if you try to shoe-horn domestic and international flights together into a schedule that meets a hotel booking criteria (which is probably the more flexible out of the two), you may not get the best price available. If you are flexible by 3-5 days, then you often find the agency/flight company can get you a cheaper price if you fly on other dates near to your specified days.

 

Just my experience on this though.

[zilly]

i just looked for 4-11 sept - www.skyscanner.net £432 from Brum

 

if you can make it to LHR £359 on www.travelbagonline.co.uk

[zilly]

i just looked for 4-11 sept - www.skyscanner.net £432 from Brum

 

if you can make it to LHR £359 on www.travelbagonline.co.uk

 

 

forget that - just reread your post and realised you said November Doh!

Edited July 4, 2009 by zilly

[Nak Muay]

lol thanks for the effort

[wackyjacky]

JU5T: I was just on Eva's website looking for a friend who wants to join my 'monger-quest' and I checked for you as well. Eva all-in is 425 GBP or 565 in Elite. Your timing is perfect, since fares go way up in early Dec. You could wait 'em out and get a better fare maybe, but fuel's going up. Tough call. I'd pay the extra $$ for Elite unless you're a little bloke though. I didn't look, but if you've got the option take 'Deluxe" over 'Elite'- more room. wj

[Nak Muay]

lol im a 6'3" thai boxer so i am going to be cramped whereever i get put but hey im used to it!!

 

I take on board the point u make about Dec being the busy time so the chances of it being busy and therefore higher prices is more likely. Plus fuel is only going up at the min tho it shouldnt with the recession and the way the oil price has dropped to 50% of its highest high recently but thats this world for ya!!!

 

 

 

Im looking at a Emerates flight from Birmingham to Bangkok on a A380 for £463 return, so if that aint got enough room no other plane will

 

 

Plus i think it is best to pay flights now leave me more time to save

 

 

i am lucky as i will be paid the day i leave and paid again while on holiday so i will be looking at a nice budget if i can just keep up my training from now till then and avoid the alcohol and then go FREKKEN NUTS when i get there!!!

[nisoptimum]

Try WEFLY.COM,got an Emirates flight from Manchester with only 2 hour stopovers in Dubai,£420 end of Sept,same flight on other sights £500+

[Glynrhedyn]

Im looking at a Emerates flight from Birmingham to Bangkok on a A380 for £463 return, so if that aint got enough room no other plane will

Only the DXB-BKK leg is A380 though isn't it? BHX flights are still B777.

GR.

edit - just seen this A380 BHX

Edited August 2, 2009 by Glynrhedyn

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