Ryanair sale?

mytime

Hi does anyone have an idea when the next Ryanair sale will happen?

Chucken

Im getting emails on sales everyday. They have some great deals atm.

Jocelynel

mytime wrote: »

Hi does anyone have an idea when the next Ryanair sale will happen?

as far as i can tell, ryanair change their prices every tuesday and friday. their flights tend to be at their best price 6/8 weeks or so before you intend to travel. i travel to UK a bit, the days of 1p/€1 flights are long gone, the cheapest I've seen in the past 12 months are around €20 each way incl tax & charges

mytime

Thanks for the replies, I'm looking at booking flights to Ibiza at the end of July, I've been watching them for the last 5 weeks or so and they have'nt changed from €334. Aerlingus are slightly cheaper but the flight times are terrible. Do I book now or do I wait until closer to the time?

Jocelynel

i can only give advice on dublin to faro for you as we've been going here for the past number of years

last year the aerlingus flights went from around 200return up to 500return for july and they never came down, especially the first weekend of july, those just seemed to go up and up. however, ryanair's flights did reduce in price nearer the time. i know the prices of the dublin to faro route, so i know how much i'm willing to spend on a flight. if aerlingus does have a sale in june, they could offer 20euros off that price of 335, not that much. again, we can only speculate!!

personally i'd rather go with the better flight times!

Chucken

mytime wrote: »

Thanks for the replies, I'm looking at booking flights to Ibiza at the end of July, I've been watching them for the last 5 weeks or so and they have'nt changed from €334. Aerlingus are slightly cheaper but the flight times are terrible. Do I book now or do I wait until closer to the time?

I just looked at 24th to 31st July return for 1 person out of Dublin. Its coming in at 264.11.

http://oi50.tinypic.com/13zshlj.jpg

Jamie2k9

Ryanair flight times can be changed up to 4 weeks before departure.

last year the aerlingus flights went from around 200return up to 500return for july and they never came down, especially the first weekend of july,

That first weekend in July is one of the bussiest and many EI flights are almost full which will explain the prices.

mytime

Chucken wrote: »

I just looked at 24th to 31st July return for 1 person out of Dublin. Its coming in at 264.11.

http://oi50.tinypic.com/13zshlj.jpg

That's a great price but I need to go go July 25th to August 1st and its coming in at €314.11.....I think I shall play the waiting game and hope it doesn't back fire

MMAGirl

Delete your cookies and renew your IP address.
As someone who worked on a major airlines booking system i can tell you that they know who is looking at the same flights often and will keep the price nice and high for that person as they know they are more than interested in taking that flight.
By the way, revenue do the same for the VRT system

mytime

I managed to book them on April 10th for €291, just checked them and they are gone up to €406

booksale

MMAGirl wrote: »

Delete your cookies and renew your IP address.
As someone who worked on a major airlines booking system i can tell you that they know who is looking at the same flights often and will keep the price nice and high for that person as they know they are more than interested in taking that flight.
By the way, revenue do the same for the VRT system

THANKS! This is a great tip. Never known that!

katy67

MMAGirl wrote: »

Delete your cookies and renew your IP address.
As someone who worked on a major airlines booking system i can tell you that they know who is looking at the same flights often and will keep the price nice and high for that person as they know they are more than interested in taking that flight.
By the way, revenue do the same for the VRT system

This actually works!
For the last 2 weeks, was looking for cheap flights and the price (450e-500e)stay the same all the time. Yesterday l did what it said above and this morning, the price has gone down to 340e. So happy now:):)

Jocelynel

are we better off using skyscanner, so aerlingus/ryanair can't track whose looking up particular flights or can the airlines still monitor via skyscanner

thanks for the heads up

zagmund

mytime wrote: »

Hi does anyone have an idea when the next Ryanair sale will happen?

I booked flights with them today, so expect a sale any day now

z

jjbrien

zagmund wrote: »

I booked flights with them today, so expect a sale any day now

z

Im supprised they didnt have a 1 cent sale to celebrate O'Learys next 5 years. To be honest the days of 1 cent or 1 euro flights with Ryanair are gone. Seems 19.99 is the permanent deal these days.

adamski8

katy67 wrote: »

This actually works!
For the last 2 weeks, was looking for cheap flights and the price (450e-500e)stay the same all the time. Yesterday l did what it said above and this morning, the price has gone down to 340e. So happy now:):)

wait, so the price didnt go down instantaniously? BS then, it could have changed overnight. ive never seen any proof of this cookies proof. not for ryanair at least

Dietsquirt

mytime wrote: »

Thanks for the replies, I'm looking at booking flights to Ibiza at the end of July, I've been watching them for the last 5 weeks or so and they have'nt changed from €334. Aerlingus are slightly cheaper but the flight times are terrible. Do I book now or do I wait until closer to the time?

As someone has already mentioned, if you use Google Chrome, go in to 'incognito mode' and search the flights again. The price will have one down. Or else delete cookies, only found this out recently and it works:)

katy67

adamski8 wrote: »

wait, so the price didnt go down instantaniously? BS then, it could have changed overnight. ive never seen any proof of this cookies proof. not for ryanair at least

You could be right but as l said before, the price was the same for the last 2 weeks and l have been checking it out every evening waiting for the price to come down and when l cleared the cookies, it did come down. (It could have came down instantly as l didn't checked the price straight away, so l really don't know) but it is a coincidence!
Still it doesn't matter, l got it cheap and l'm happy:)

adamski8

katy67 wrote: »

You could be right but as l said before, the price was the same for the last 2 weeks and l have been checking it out every evening waiting for the price to come down and when l cleared the cookies, it did come down. (It could have came down instantly as l didn't checked the price straight away, so l really don't know) but it is a coincidence!
Still it doesn't matter, l got it cheap and l'm happy:)

Well at least you admit it wasnt straight away biut why didnt you check straight away?

katy67

adamski8 wrote: »

Well at least you admit it wasnt straight away biut why didnt you check straight away?

To be honest, l should have but l was busy with kids, dinner, homework, football match etc, forgot all about it.

MMAGirl

MMAGirl wrote: »

By the way, revenue do the same for the VRT system

How does that work? Surely there is a set list price, and the vrt will always be a percentage of that?

Fred Swanson

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adamski8

There has been plenty of times where ive been checking flights for a few weeks for them to come down as evreryone knows they tend to go down about 3months beforehand. But obviously they can increase as the cheap seats go.

ryanair has in the past completly denied this practice of raising the fares and i believe them. If i was thinking of going somewhere and checked the flights a few times im more than likely not set on going on that trip, a price increase would seriously put me of buying

blackbird 49

Hi just been reading boards about Ryanair about booking flights and it is true how much flight prices can change somebody recommended that you delete cookies I was wondering could somebody out there tell me how to do this please thanks

BrokenMan

blackbird 49 wrote: »

Hi just been reading boards about Ryanair about booking flights and it is true how much flight prices can change somebody recommended that you delete cookies I was wondering could somebody out there tell me how to do this please thanks

Depends on the browser you asre using. Do a google search for deleting cookies 'browser type'

Really its not worth it though. I regularly check flights on ryanair and they go up and down without ever deleting my cookies. The 'normal' trend is
Start Low
Go up after X number of seats bought (Repeat as more seats get bought)
Go down with a couple of months to go is the seats aren't selling.
Go up a lot in the last week.

Thats just general though and from my own experience. Of course there are exceptions. I nearly always buy as soon as they come out if I know I am definitely going to use them or else wait until a couple of months before. I would never buy flights 2-5 months before using them.

I will usually track flight prices even after I buy them just for research and out of curiosity.

Maddylicious

Speaking from experience- deleting cookies does work

Anyone else notice that general cost of flights to malaga for next year are pricey compared to previous years? Aer lingus are actually cheaper at the moment..

Jocelynel

i'm watching flights to portugal and yes, they are at their most expensive in the 5 years we've being going to portugal. aerlingus was cheaper a couple of weeks ago....but i can now see them going up 10/20euros every 2 weeks

keithclancy

Me neither .. no difference in having incognito mode/different IP address. (German/Dutch)

When the price goes up I check on a machine in Germany and its the same.

When it goes back down its the same.

Jamie2k9

Jocelynel wrote: »

i'm watching flights to portugal and yes, they are at their most expensive in the 5 years we've being going to portugal. aerlingus was cheaper a couple of weeks ago....but i can now see them going up 10/20euros every 2 weeks

if aer lingus were cheaper why didn't you book the flights?

ger664

Jocelynel wrote: »

i'm watching flights to portugal and yes, they are at their most expensive in the 5 years we've being going to portugal. aerlingus was cheaper a couple of weeks ago....but i can now see them going up 10/20euros every 2 weeks

Try flying from shannon. There is currently no taxes on the flights and are about €80-€100 each depending on day etc

Maddylicious

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

if aer lingus were cheaper why didn't you book the flights?

Because they're cheaper by about €20 but still not cheap. Flights right now are far more expensive than usual considering I'm looking to book flights so far in advance. I book around this time every year for the following June or September!

efb

Norton

sydneybound

Quick one and rather than start a new thread – I’m due to book flights from London over the August UK bank holiday to Alghero Sardinia airport and the cheapest direct flights with Ryanair are coming in at just under £250.

I’m in the classic two minds, do I a) wait till the 6-8 week period prior to the flight to try and get it cheaper or do I b) book the flights now as they only ever go up given its over a bank holiday weekend.

As I say I’m totally in two mind. I wish the party of people I’m going with went for a weekend in May or June when flights are £50 return!