Thomas Cook flights

[tigwig]

Does anyone know if there is any particular cheap time to book the above flight? We have decided to go to Fuerteventura in May and have booked the villa. I've done hours of searching for flights and the only one that suits is a Thomas Cook one from Manchester. So do I book now or wait and hope they might have a sale or something?

[redcrx]

usually the price of flights increases as the places become fewer.

Ive never seen a thomas cook flight sale, so not sure what your chances are. Dont forget that most will no doubt be bought with package holidays

[Prudie]

redcrx is right, I booked flight only with Thomas Cook this year (and very good they were) but there was only a limited number of seats, most were assigned to their packakge deals. Unless money is really an issue I'd grab the flight that suits and you can relax.

[Buenchico]

As others have said, Thomas Cook's prices are unlikely to go down.

However, are you sure that you've checked all six airlines flying to Fuerteventura? Here's a list:

BMI: East Midlands & Manchester

easyJet: Bristol, Liverpool & Gatwick

Monarch: Birmingham & Manchester

Ryanair: Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Prestwick, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, Luton, Stansted & Bournemouth

Thomas Cook: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Glasgow, Gatwick, Manchester, Aberdeen, Stansted & Newcastle

Thomson: Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow, Gatwick, Manchester
Luton & Stansted.

Chris

[tigwig]

Thanks guys, we live in Wakefield so nearest airport is Leeds/Bradford and we can obviously do other localish airports too. I've checked all those airlines Chris apart from BMI but its the times that dont suit with the others. We want to fly out there in morning so arrive in afternoon not at night (as travelling with a terror 2yr old lol and a 7yr old). Annoying thing is I checked with TC last week and it said they had a sale on then but we hadnt booked the villa so didnt want to commit. Checked again the next day and the price had gone up!

[Buenchico]

Thanks for your reply, Tigwig.

I apologise that I might have misled you by mistake. Several reputable sources list BMI as serving Fuerteventura but it looks like they might have now pulled out of serving the island, as I can't find any flights on either the BMI or BmiBaby websites.

Sorry!

[tigwig]

Yes I looked and I couldnt find any either lol. No worries!

[heathfield]

Be warned! If you search online for flights, and return to a website you've already visited, don't be surprised to find that the price has gone up. This is done deliberately to make you panic and make the booking in case the price goes up even more. But this is actually a sneaky ploy designed to induce you to buy, and it's commonly used throughout the travel industry. The site will have left a cookie on your computer, and it knows that you are re-visiting and so bumps the price up. To get around being shown the increased price, simply remove your computer's cookies before revisiting the website.

[vallaw]

Have you tried this site? http://www.kayak.co.uk/

[tigwig]

Wow I was not aware of that heathfield. That site is good thanks vallaw.
Just another question, can you book with 2 different airlines say Monarch to go out and Thomas Cook to come home. Obviously to the same airport.

[Buenchico]

Of course you can book with two different airlines. Lots of people do exactly that. (The only exception would be with charter flights, where you have to book returns because the rules don't permit single flights to be offered).

Those who use public transport to get to the airport (or who get lifts from friends) often chose to depart and arrive using different UK airports. (Similarly, people travelling to, say, Barcelona might fly out to Girona with Ryanair - and then take the bus - and back from Barcelona with easyJet). I've even known people to leave their car at Heathrow, from where their departure flight took off, but to fly back into Gatwick and then take the inter-airport coach to get back to their car.

Being flexible is the best way to find the bargains!

Chris