Saturday Night Stay Now Insufficient?
 

I was looking at doing a quick short-haul hop somewhere, for one night, one weekend. I intended to fly out from LHR or LGW on a Saturday morning and return the following day.

Some of the return prices are substantially more than if I fly Friday to Sunday or Saturday to Monday.

Was this always the case? I thought staying for one night - provided it was a Saturday night - was sufficient.

Palmer

Some fare rules require a two night stay.

Some require Sunday night Stay.

Which fare in particular? I'll look it up.

If you look at the lower fare on ITA Matrix you'll see what the restriction is for that fare.

Nowhere specifically. Having had another look, it was mainly routes from LGW in CE.

For example, 25/26 March AMS, BOD, FCO and probably more. Fare is cheaper over two nights.

Palmer

Just availability, Sunday night flights less seats as everyone coming back from weekend trips. ?

The AMS and FCO I fares require Sat night stay:

The BOD fare requires a 2 night stay, but doesn't have to be over Sat night:

Looking at BOD, the cheaper fare (IKV2K) includes a rule regarding length of stay, as below. The single night, more expensive, fare (DKV2K) does not. The more expensive fare does book into D rather than I, but looking at it I don't think this is caused by a lack of availability of I, rather the IKV2K rules.

edit : too slow, beaten by Ldnn1

Not exactly. The inbound Sunday fare drops if you depart Friday.

Thank you Hodders and Ldnn1. It was just a general observation when searching recently, rather than requiring anything specific to any of those destinations. Thank you for the background and fare details.

Palmer