Originally Posted by
cockpitvisit
Does Ryanair occasionally also discount high season prices, or are their crazy low prices for low season only?
E. g. if I want to fly them to a typical summer holiday destination in the summer but am flexible about the dates - is it better to book now, or speculate on a future sale?
I understand it is usually better to book now when you have specific travel dates. But what if travel dates (or even the exact destination) are flexible?
I live in London but my mother is from Alicante so I have family, friends (and a house) there. LON-ALC is about as typical a summer destination route as you can get. My experience is limited to this route, and as I have a child at school, it has been limited to these high season dates lately.
This is the time when you might find a half decent price for August.
There is absolutely no incentive, none at all, for Ryanair to introduce a sale.
If you are flexible in, not just dates, but destinations, it is possible that somethIng will turn up for the holidays, but it’s unlikely to be a typical summer destination.
What is more likely to turn up between now and August is a flash sale on a non LCC offering a non-direct route.
In the past my kid and me have “camped” on a rubberised playground floor at Madrid with Iberia and transitted at Oslo with SAS to save a couple of hundred pounds on the direct Ryanair price from London to Alicante. We were quite flexible with dates too.
I booked our outbound LON-ALC flights at the end of January and got them cheap (about £40 each). Unfortunately, I had to wait for confirmation from other people before being able to book our return about a week ago, £120. Prices have gone up considerably since then.
My parents booked their Ryanair STN-ALC outbound flights for the middle of June, £34 each including the hand luggage fee. They will be in ALC for the Hogueras fire festival and stay until the end of August.