Mrs Mac is heading down to the family house in Majorca in June from Manchester, which is not normally a problem as plenty of flights with Jet 2, EasyJet, TUI , Ryanair. This year after checking her preferred carrier which has been Jet 2, she was told she was only able to fly on the very early flight in the morning, and the late evening departure returning. She then tried Easy Jet and TUI and got the same response as they reserve the more reasonable flight times for holiday packages
Yes, I found this as well when checking some flights for later this year, I could have a more attractive flight time if I wanted to book a holiday...
It seems to me that there is some real gouging of customers going on
Agreed. All carriers are reaping money of the supressed demand from the Covid years.
Maybe trying to recover something from when they couldn't fly and when they were flying around empty.