How to plan for July 2020 on budget carriers?
Jul 18, 2019, 1:21 pm
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How to plan for July 2020 on budget carriers?
I was looking at planning a trip next summer including Spain, Sicily, Morocco and maybe others..
The big airlines have their schedules but the budget ones don't seem to.
One idea I had is to look at the 2019 schedules and assume (hope?) that the same routes will run the same days of the week in 2020, e.g. RyanAir flies RAK-SVQ Tues and Saturdays (Marrakesh - Seville).
Any thoughts from the community? Risky?!
When to the budget carriers publish their summer schedules?
The big airlines have their schedules but the budget ones don't seem to.
One idea I had is to look at the 2019 schedules and assume (hope?) that the same routes will run the same days of the week in 2020, e.g. RyanAir flies RAK-SVQ Tues and Saturdays (Marrakesh - Seville).
Any thoughts from the community? Risky?!
When to the budget carriers publish their summer schedules?
Jul 23, 2019, 11:23 am
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My experience has been that it's fall/winter that they publish the coming summer. Even major airlines that operate a ULCC-like short-haul operation sometimes publish their seasonal stuff later than their core long-haul flights.
I've gone ahead and booked hotels farther out than flights as long as I know there are *some* major airlines that will operate my desired date even if the "budget" airline doesn't. Booking short-hauls with a couple months' advance notice usually isn't that hard.
There may be a few locations where it's risky to book a hotel without knowing the flight schedules. Seville isn't one of them - there will always be Iberia flights there, every day. Plus a few daily arrivals each from the other two alliances.
I've gone ahead and booked hotels farther out than flights as long as I know there are *some* major airlines that will operate my desired date even if the "budget" airline doesn't. Booking short-hauls with a couple months' advance notice usually isn't that hard.
There may be a few locations where it's risky to book a hotel without knowing the flight schedules. Seville isn't one of them - there will always be Iberia flights there, every day. Plus a few daily arrivals each from the other two alliances.
