Cheaps flights from Dublin to UK

Toast4532

Hi

I am looking to book flights from Dublin to either Standstead, Luton or Heathrow in the UK, hoping to fly around Christmas.

Ryanair is about €100 for flights, incl baggage, but Aerlingus is about €150, including baggage, are there any other, reasonably priced airlines that fly around those times to those locations?

Thanks.

Fratton Fred

Toast4532 wrote: »

Hi

I am looking to book flights from Dublin to either Standstead, Luton or Heathrow in the UK, hoping to fly around Christmas.

Ryanair is about €100 for flights, incl baggage, but Aerlingus is about €150, including baggage, are there any other, reasonably priced airlines that fly around those times to those locations?

Thanks.

BA or cityjet are the other two

schemingbohemia

Remember to include your onward travel costs into your figures. Unless you're being picked up that is.

Stansted is expensive to get into central london from unless you use the bus which can take some time so could be a false economy going to Stansted and then using Stansted Express.

zagmund

It's worth looking at non-London airports too. For example, at the moment you can fly to Bristol & back with Ryanair at the weekend in the middle of December for €60, and there are good value train fares to London & back for about £30 or so. The trade-off is the time spent getting there, but if saving money is the key then you should consider it as an option. Remember also that the train in from Luton & Stansted takes a fair while. Same goes for other airports like Birmingham. Check out Aer Lingus to Southend also - train station is in spitting distance of the airport.

z

Toast4532

Thanks everyone. Just checked BA and Cityjet and they are working out at nearly €200, excluding baggage. :eek:

I will be picked up and dropped off at the airport, so no worries there. The reason I want to fly to either of the airports mentioned above is because they are the airports I can be picked up at.

zagmund

BA fly to Heathrow - they took over the British Midland flights.

Nobody else flies to Stansted or Luton from Dublin as far as I know.

z

Yamanoto

Neither BA or Cityjet charge for checked in baggage, once it's within their respective allowances.

€100 with Ryanair ain't too bad OP, considering you'll be travelling in peak season.

keithclancy

Toast4532 wrote: »

Hi

I am looking to book flights from Dublin to either Standstead, Luton or Heathrow in the UK, hoping to fly around Christmas.

Ryanair is about €100 for flights, incl baggage, but Aerlingus is about €150, including baggage, are there any other, reasonably priced airlines that fly around those times to those locations?

Thanks.

I'd say you won't get cheaper than Ryanair around then:
http://www.skyscanner.ie/flights/dub/lond/121220/130103/airfares-from-dublin-to-london-in-december-2012-and-january-2013.html

schemingbohemia

Forgot to mention yesterday that in the past couple of years for sporting events when prices to London were horrific I flew into Birmingham - very cheap flights and the train station is in the airport, if you're arriving off-peak you can get a train to London for less than a tenner each way, if you time it well you could be in the centre of London quicker than on the tube from Heathrow.

ah just read the bit about being picked up, might be useful for others.

Toast4532

Yamanoto wrote: »

Neither BA or Cityjet charge for checked in baggage, once it's within their respective allowances.

€100 with Ryanair ain't too bad OP, considering you'll be travelling in peak season.

Thanks so much for this info, I'll check them out again.

I just went to book my flights with Ryanair and they want €50 for baggage, I thought it was only €15, but it seems that in 'high season' bags are more expensive.