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Old Apr 20th 2012, 6:01 am
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Going to Edinburgh from Oregon on 17th May. Cant find anything under $1000.
Where do you guys go for good flight prices? Hell I'll take anything under 1k. Thanks!
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Old Apr 20th 2012, 6:16 am
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Default Re: Any cheap flights to UK in may?

Originally Posted by dukestravels1972
Going to Edinburgh from Oregon on 17th May. Cant find anything under $1000.
Where do you guys go for good flight prices? Hell I'll take anything under 1k. Thanks!
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Old Apr 20th 2012, 9:29 am
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Default Re: Any cheap flights to UK in may?

Originally Posted by dukestravels1972
Going to Edinburgh from Oregon on 17th May. Cant find anything under $1000.
Where do you guys go for good flight prices? Hell I'll take anything under 1k. Thanks!
From the West Coast to Scotland in under a month's time? $1,000 might actually be a very good deal.

Do you have any scope to vary the airports you're using to see what that does to pricing? (e.g. have a bit of a drive at this end of the other if it saves you a reasonable enough amount of dosh).
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Default Re: Any cheap flights to UK in may?

Sorry, I just booked for 23 May and it was $1,100.
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Default Re: Any cheap flights to UK in may?

Originally Posted by dukestravels1972
Going to Edinburgh from Oregon on 17th May. Cant find anything under $1000.
Where do you guys go for good flight prices? Hell I'll take anything under 1k. Thanks!
I was just looking up flights from the East Coast to LHR the other day and was surprised to find the cheapest were around the $800 mark. That was using Kayak.com. From Oregon I guess it must be more.
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Default Re: Any cheap flights to UK in may?

Originally Posted by dukestravels1972
Going to Edinburgh from Oregon on 17th May. Cant find anything under $1000.
Where do you guys go for good flight prices? Hell I'll take anything under 1k. Thanks!
Just do a regular Kayak oe Expedia search,see what airlines come up the cheapest and then go directly to the site...9 times out of 10 you save a few $$$

You could bid on Priceline if you can leave it last minute
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Default Re: Any cheap flights to UK in may?

May I respectfully remind everyone that there's some kind of little sporting event going on in London soon!

I flew ATL to LHR at the end of December and it was well over $700 then!
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Default Re: Any cheap flights to UK in may?

Originally Posted by tonrob
From the West Coast to Scotland in under a month's time? $1,000 might actually be a very good deal.

Do you have any scope to vary the airports you're using to see what that does to pricing? (e.g. have a bit of a drive at this end of the other if it saves you a reasonable enough amount of dosh).
Yeah looked at all the UK airports. London is obviously the cheapest, with a train up to Edinburgh or hiring a car it wouldn't be worth it mate.
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Default Re: Any cheap flights to UK in may?

Originally Posted by Guindalf
May I respectfully remind everyone that there's some kind of little sporting event going on in London soon!

I flew ATL to LHR at the end of December and it was well over $700 then!
Its over three months away though. I expect the prices into the UK will be absolutely huge. My wife seems to think my estimation of $3000 from west coast is dramatic. I disagree.
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Default Re: Any cheap flights to UK in may?

The major airlines have already blacked out the days so you can't use airmiles, apparently they think that travellers will be travelling to the UK in May/June for the Olympics
We booked flights to Edinburgh by using airmiles from Anchorage to Boston then paid for flights from Boston to Edinburgh via Dublin with Aer Lingus. That was back in October and the transatlantic fares were $900 each back then.

I just got a deal on BA Anch - LHR for $930something but thats pre-May. Good luck !
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Default Re: Any cheap flights to UK in may?

I paid $849, to fly Charlotte to London to Inverness.

I booked this back in Nov.

Normal price was around $1280, I set up an alert on Kayak.com, when they emailed me that price I had it booked that morning.
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Default Re: Any cheap flights to UK in may?

Originally Posted by dukestravels1972
Its over three months away though. I expect the prices into the UK will be absolutely huge. My wife seems to think my estimation of $3000 from west coast is dramatic. I disagree.
Flights from Portland to London during the Olympics are running at about $1300 upwards at the moment. I booked ours last week and paid just over $1280 each. Thats for 25/8/12 to 8/8/12.
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Default Re: Any cheap flights to UK in may?

Originally Posted by dukestravels1972
Going to Edinburgh from Oregon on 17th May. Cant find anything under $1000.
Where do you guys go for good flight prices? Hell I'll take anything under 1k. Thanks!
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Old Apr 20th 2012, 10:21 pm
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Default Re: Any cheap flights to UK in may?

Try Icelandair.

We had a terrible time getting flights from Seattle to Glasgow this year due to the Olympics. We did end up getting some reasonable prices at Christmas through Icelandair.

Don't know where in Oregon you are but Portland is a 3.5 hour drive from Seatac. Glasgow and Edinburgh are about 1.5 hours apart. We got $3850 including tax for Two Adults and Two Kids at Christmas.

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