Intriguing Aer Lingus flight drop for my dates...

[scottishgirl87]

My daily email from Skyscanner/Kayak alerted me this morning to some flight price drops on the dates I'm looking at for this September. Although, not a massive drop Aer Lingus is coming up over a handful of websites at around £555-£567, compared with the £620 that has been consistently cheapest with US Airways for the past couple of weeks.

Anyone know why this would be? Unfortunately, the price hasn't dropped with Aer Lingus direct but is appearing through Holiday Genie, Travel Up, Crystal Travel, 9Flights.co.uk, etc. Has anyone ever booked with any of these? Luckily the price also seems to have dropped on NetFlights and Expedia but at the £567 higher end of the scale, I've at least heard of them or used them in the past!

It's amazing the excitement a £40 pp price drop can cause...

 

[starrysky]

The flights on the main aer lingus website go up and down a lot. They have jumped from just over £1400 to over £1600 and back down. Not sure if its to do with the euro rate or not but worth keeping an eye on.

 

[scottishgirl87]

The flights on the main aer lingus website go up and down a lot. They have jumped from just over £1400 to over £1600 and back down. Not sure if its to do with the euro rate or not but worth keeping an eye on.

Thanks, starrysky, the same flights are about £710 each on Aer Lingus own website. Some crazy things going on with my dates tonight, have now stumbled on US Airways flights for £529, would jump at them if there wasn't a 21 hour stopover in Philly meaning getting home from Orlando 2 days after leaving

Can only hope it continues!

 

[starrysky]

Make sure you keep clearing your cookies and browser history as the sites remember how many times you have been looking.that way they prices are more accurate. Sounds crazy but true.

 

[scottishgirl87]

Make sure you keep clearing your cookies and browser history as the sites remember how many times you have been looking.that way they prices are more accurate. Sounds crazy but true.

Yeah I know, thanks though. It's such a pain to do on iPad though as unlike on a computer you can't delete individual website cookies, only them all.

 

[starrysky]

Yeah I know, thanks though. It's such a pain to do on iPad though as unlike on a computer you can't delete individual website cookies, only them all.

Tell me about it still worth doing on a regular basis.
On the flights I never found them cheaper on any of the comparison sites. And also the price between Edinburgh and Glasgow can be very different. We paid £130 less than the Edinburgh flight to fly from Glasgow. We have to travel to either so £130 was a fair saving for us when you factor in petrol and overnight hotel costs.

 

[scottishgirl87]

Tell me about it still worth doing on a regular basis.
On the flights I never found them cheaper on any of the comparison sites. And also the price between Edinburgh and Glasgow can be very different. We paid £130 less than the Edinburgh flight to fly from Glasgow. We have to travel to either so £130 was a fair saving for us when you factor in petrol and overnight hotel costs.

Yeah, I've noticed that Edinburgh is alot more expensive than Glasgow this time around. Luckily we are only about 15 mins away from Glasgow Airport so really is the easiest option for us.

Still trying to persuade the boyfriend to book....

 

[starrysky]

Well the flight that goes from Dublin is the same one regardless of if you fly from Edinburgh or Glasgow.
Cheapest flights we have found and I've found them to be a good service.

 

[Samaya]

Just received an email from Aer Lingus announcing Sale: Book your sale fare to the USA via Dublin from £239 each way including taxes, charges and admin fee for travel September to March: Book by 21 May 2013.

http://www.aerlingus.com/travelinformation/weboffersfromuk/uktotheusa/

Haven't found a good price for us yet from our local airport, but cheapest for LON-MCO seems to be starting around £493.

 

[scottishgirl87]

Just received an email from Aer Lingus announcing Sale: Book your sale fare to the USA via Dublin from £239 each way including taxes, charges and admin fee for travel September to March: Book by 21 May 2013.

http://www.aerlingus.com/travelinformation/weboffersfromuk/uktotheusa/

Haven't found a good price for us yet from our local airport, but cheapest for LON-MCO seems to be starting around £493.

Thanks for that, Samaya. Just had a look though and a whopping £4.20 discount, per person, which they have even highlighted in red! lol I'm now being quoted £525 for the US Airways flights, without the long stopover. Boyfriend has said £450 is his breaking point but I don't think that's realistic

 

[Madfish]

I'm waiting for next July/August to come on sale. I would love to get it for £550... But expecting a fair bit more.

 

[starrysky]

Even with the discount it's still more than we paid for the flights when we booked them on the first available date.