Has anyone booked flights for late August yet?

[scoobydooby]

Thanks for this, I've just looked and priced up a ticket with BA that would be far cheaper. Infact it's also premier class.

Do I have to fly back to Dublin or can I after I'm in tue US tell them I've decided to stay at London a few days?
I'm guessing I have to fly from London to Dublin on the way back too, which is a shame as we live just over an hour from the airport.

Not getting on a flight is not a crime. That's no different than just been late and missing it. People do that by accident every day. But I am guessing the issue would be your luggage going to Dublin without you?

 

[scoobydooby]

I just found these for late August into September. Very cheap for four adults and great times too.

 

[chmurf]

Thanks for this, I've just looked and priced up a ticket with BA that would be far cheaper. Infact it's also premier class.

Do I have to fly back to Dublin or can I after I'm in tue US tell them I've decided to stay at London a few days?
I'm guessing I have to fly from London to Dublin on the way back too, which is a shame as we live just over an hour from the airport.

Whatever you do, never let the airline know your not willing to take a flight
If you tell them you want to stay a few days in london, they'll say okay, and rebill you for a multi city plus amendment feesfees.

The question you ask is highly controversial.
Not taking a flight is not a crime but purposedly booking a flight with the intent of droping the last leg is called hidden city ticketing. It's a breach of contract of carriage and the airline would have every right to rebill you for your ''real'' itineraryitinerary. Actually a dub-mco-lhr is more expensive than a dub-mco-dub. So if the airline finds out you've booked a return to/from dublin to avoid paying for your real itinerary, it's considered a breach of contract and subject to penalty. (Now the airlines don't rebill passengers ... yet. But just because they don't do it now doesn't mean they can't. In fact it's highly possible that they will in the future)

If you decide to go that way it would only work if your flight from mco lands at gatwick and the flight to dublin takes off from heathrow, or the other way around.
The change of airports means you need to collect your luggage in london. Otherwise your checked bags will go directly to dublin. Airlines no longer short check luggage
The only way around this is not checking any bag.

The next catch is with irregular operations. When you book a plane ticket you have a contract with the airline. This contract says that the airline agrees to transport you from A to B and back. What happens if your mco-london is cancelled or delayed ? Well the airline can rebook you on an alternate route, or with a partner airline, and you'd end up flying orlando-new york-dublin (for example), never stopping in londonlondon. You'd be stranded in dublin needing to pay for a very expensive one way flight to london
The layover airport is never guaranteed. The only thing that's guaranteed is your point of origin and your point of destination, anything in between can change.

I think this pretty much covers it.
Many passengers use this ploy and be ready for heated debate between those who say it's ok and those who say it's not.
My point here is not to condone or condemn that type of booking but merely stating the possible issues.

Whatever you do is only yours to decide

 

[tinkerpea]

Whatever you do, never let the airline know your not willing to take a flight
If you tell them you want to stay a few days in london, they'll say okay, and rebill you for a multi city plus amendment feesfees.

The question you ask is highly controversial.
Not taking a flight is not a crime but purposedly booking a flight with the intent of droping the last leg is called hidden city ticketing. It's a breach of contract of carriage and the airline would have every right to rebill you for your ''real'' itineraryitinerary. Actually a dub-mco-lhr is more expensive than a dub-mco-dub. So if the airline finds out you've booked a return to/from dublin to avoid paying for your real itinerary, it's considered a breach of contract and subject to penalty. (Now the airlines don't rebill passengers ... yet. But just because they don't do it now doesn't mean they can't. In fact it's highly possible that they will in the future)

If you decide to go that way it would only work if your flight from mco lands at gatwick and the flight to dublin takes off from heathrow, or the other way around.
The change of airports means you need to collect your luggage in london. Otherwise your checked bags will go directly to dublin. Airlines no longer short check luggage
The only way around this is not checking any bag.

The next catch is with irregular operations. When you book a plane ticket you have a contract with the airline. This contract says that the airline agrees to transport you from A to B and back. What happens if your mco-london is cancelled or delayed ? Well the airline can rebook you on an alternate route, or with a partner airline, and you'd end up flying orlando-new york-dublin (for example), never stopping in londonlondon. You'd be stranded in dublin needing to pay for a very expensive one way flight to london
The layover airport is never guaranteed. The only thing that's guaranteed is your point of origin and your point of destination, anything in between can change.

I think this pretty much covers it.
Many passengers use this ploy and be ready for heated debate between those who say it's ok and those who say it's not.
My point here is not to condone or condemn that type of booking but merely stating the possible issues.

Whatever you do is only yours to decide

Thank you for explaining all this to me, like I said we have never even looked into doing it this way, but did think that this would be the case.
Although one of the flights I've looked at does indeed need us to go from Gatwick to Heathrow.
So it would work that way.
I'd go ahead and buy the tickets for a return to dublin either way.even if it was possible to do the Gatwick to Heathrow incase of like you said re routing.

It's just a killer to fly to Dublin when your so close to home, but if it's the only way and it looks right now to save me over £1300 then so be it.

 

[tinkerpea]

Not getting on a flight is not a crime. That's no different than just been late and missing it. People do that by accident every day. But I am guessing the issue would be your luggage going to Dublin without you?

We did think this, but one of the routes we could go, is that we would have to transfer between Gatwick and Heathrow so we would be collecting our luggage at the London airport.

 

[1andrea]

We're just going to complete the full flight to and from Dublin, we're scaredy cats! xx

 

[sjt22]

Finally got mine sorted.
Waited it out until the "sale" and managed to use some air miles (apparently there is a glitch on the virgin website and if you use london all routes to orlando it won't work with air miles you have to specify london gatwick).
£988 as opposed to the £1300 it was a few weeks ago.

Can get excited now that I have sorted the flights as I was panicking.

Sarah x