Aer Lingus - jacks up fares to World Cup play off cities

mike65 · 19-10-2009 12:44PM #1

Yep, flights to Lisbon and Paris have been hiked 3 fold (I think) for the days the play-offs will take place.

Liveline will be covering this at 1.45.

Jip · 19-10-2009 01:36PM

Fairly normal practice for any business involved in the travel and tourism industry, maybe not right but nothing illegal about it. Plus the high fares help subsidise the rest of the cheap fares around the dates when there's a high demand for flights. Hotels and airlines do this every year for 6 Nation games for example.

mcaul · 19-10-2009 01:45PM

Or look at it another way - x amount of people had multiple screens open and when the draw was announced they clicked on the flight they wanted. Therefore within a couple of minutes all the cheap seats are gone.

Only a certain percentage of seats are sold at a certain price - once they're gone, they're gone.

As you get closer to the flight day, prices come down again if the flight has niot filled x percentage by a set date.

Baasically the wrost time to book a flight is 2 - 3 weeks before you want to travel.

rashers10 · 19-10-2009 01:46PM

It's your basic supply and demand at work.

Cabaal · 19-10-2009 02:35PM

rashers10 wrote: »

It's your basic supply and demand at work.

Agreed, while it sucks big time its very much supply and demand they like any business can adjust their prices accordingly.

mcaul · 19-10-2009 06:46PM

another option to look at is a cheap flight to birmingham / stanstead / east midlands etc etc and then a flight from there to Paris - might add 2 / 3 hour to travel time, but plenty of savings on perfume / brandy / whisky in the airport shops in UK.

e.g. chanel 100ml perfume £53 - €110 over here, clinique mosturising lotion £28 in uk airports, €52 here.

- and look at the brownie points you'd earn for that too!:D

parsi · 20-10-2009 09:09AM

mike65 wrote: »

Yep, flights to Lisbon and Paris have been hiked 3 fold (I think) for the days the play-offs will take place.

Liveline will be covering this at 1.45.

Ryanair are worse - hiked 7 fold ; €15 > €108

However wouldn't they both be stupid companies if they charged low fares on a day when they could fill the planes twice over ?

We don't see Trap charging the FAI the same as he'd get for managing Donaghbanagher Town FC.

andrew1977 · 20-10-2009 09:12AM

Airlines jacking up the prices to major sporting events is nothing new, they do it every time
I am a regular traveller to the premiership games in the Uk and as soon as any fixtures are announced or just before they are announced , all airlines rocket the prices into all airports close to where the crowds will be travelling to.

egan007 · 20-10-2009 09:20AM

mike65 wrote: »

Liveline will be covering this at 1.45.

Great more staged mindless godsh!te ranting, just what this country needs

wyndham · 20-10-2009 09:28AM

parsi wrote: »

Ryanair are worse - hiked 7 fold ; €15 > €108

However wouldn't they both be stupid companies if they charged low fares on a day when they could fill the planes twice over ?

We don't see Trap charging the FAI the same as he'd get for managing Donaghbanagher Town FC.

Only €108?

I would have expected €400+ & they could probably get that. This thread should be in bargain alerts.

munchkin_utd · 20-10-2009 09:30AM

this is the biggest non story in a long time.
The planes are most likely almost full and the last number of seats cost the most.

If you tried to get from the continent to Ireland at peak times like Summer or christmas then these prices are pretty much normal.

Its all supply and demand.

Bit like house prices in Ireland back in the days!!
If people are competing for a scarce resource then the price will rocket.

Nobody was complaining when their house was increasing by 10s of thousands per month due to a lack of supply were they!!!

EDIT.
Air France (not a part of rip off ireland, errrr, they are french) are charging 676,65 for the most expensive combination to get you to paris and back for the match.
again, supply and demand.

mickoneill30 · 20-10-2009 01:01PM

munchkin_utd wrote: »

EDIT.
Air France (not a part of rip off ireland, errrr, they are french) are charging 676,65 for the most expensive combination to get you to paris and back for the match.
again, supply and demand.

But they have cheaper fares available so it's not really supply and demand there. If you want to book the most expensive option with Air France it seems to be always €680 (I think that's their business class) no matter what the date is so it's nothing to do with the match either.

Anyway it's a non issue. Say each airline can have 6 flights to Paris per day from Dublin. What does an Aer Lingus plane take? About 200 - 300 people? Of course all of the cheap seats will disappear on each airline pretty quickly. I don't think they can put more planes on just because theres a match.

Well at least Joe Duffys on the case :rolleyes:

Cabaal · 20-10-2009 01:28PM

mickoneill30 wrote: »

Well at least Joe Duffys on the case :rolleyes:

Sure Joe saves the world on a daily basis :rolleyes:

Jaysoose · 21-10-2009 04:03PM

Cabaal wrote: »

Sure Joe saves the world on a daily basis :rolleyes:

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.....thats desperate. yeah yeah yeah..your point caller. yeah yeah.

Yeah.

rubadub · 21-10-2009 06:56PM

parsi wrote: »

Ryanair are worse - hiked 7 fold ; €15 > €108

€108 to paris & lisbon, you'd probably be lucky to get to Cork for that on the train! Look at dublin bus for festivals, they have the cheek to say "bus only takes 40mins to get to oxegen" yet charge a bloody fortune. Nothing new about supply & demand in any business, let alone transport.

If they charged the same price there would never ever be €15 flights.

parsi · 21-10-2009 10:09PM

I wonder did RTE highlight they charge more for ads during Joe Duffy than they do for ads during Dail Report ?

Or maybe they are like the papers - always report on other supposed ripoff merchants whilst ignoring yourself.

Aer Lingus - jacks up fares to World Cup play off cities

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