Originally Posted by
Mr Mac
Interestingly I have noticed that there has been a substantial price hike in seats and availability. I will give you two recent examples. 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. Ryanair when the contacted and the quote was around £400 which seems a tad steep. Doing the same journey last year was around £300 and she could use better flight times.
Imagine the likes of Jet2 and other package holiday operators make more money from package customers than flight only... at least on the hotly contested sun routes from an airport.