Among the many irritating mysteries of my life is why, apparently, the rest of the world can find cheap flights on which they can circumnavigate the world whereas I cannot. Even if I think I’m there it always turns out that if I’d saved the time and gone straight to the carrier’s web site I could get the flight for about the same money.
I thought I’d cracked it this week. BA flight from Heathrow to Edinburgh (yes, I’m off north of the border again) was £139, but Flybe from Birmingham offered a flight out for £9.90 and a return for something in the £24.00 region. And the times were better so I got booking with a song in my heart. So how come I ended up paying £106? Well, firstly they charge extra for booking on line, then they charge extra for the airport and fuel taxes which is a whopping amount. Then, every checked in bag is charged for and so is booking and reserving a seat on-line. By the time I found out that I was only saving something in the region of £35 I was so far into the system that frankly Id almost given up the will to live, let alone fly.
I keep trying to find the elusive ‘cheap’ flights. There’s not a travel web site I don’t know. I just don’t know how to use them.
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