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Title: Can anyone Help, please?
Post by: TerryW on September 04, 2011, 03:51:48 PM
I am desperately trying to organise a week in Arillas for all of the family but even though its a year away, its very difficult for everyone to get the same holidays from work. Also  we will have to go in school holidays.

What would help, is Saturday flights, which would mean the holiday dates would not have to spill over into a second week like the Monday flights that we can easily book.

Has anyone ever flown on a Saturday and if so from which airport?
Title: Re: Can anyone Help, please?
Post by: Mick and Jill on September 04, 2011, 05:28:40 PM
Can only fly Monday and Friday fron Newcastle x
Title: Re: Can anyone Help, please?
Post by: Alan and Jan on September 04, 2011, 05:34:18 PM
Just been on Skyscanner Terry and put in 17.09.2011 for one week. Came up with Easyjet from Manchester at 0635 flight out. Might be worth having a look on Skyscanner.com
Title: Re: Can anyone Help, please?
Post by: kevin.g on September 04, 2011, 06:03:06 PM
terry
i think your only option is e/j,,as they fly in to corfu 7days aweek,mostly twice a day,,,as for e/j airports near to you .i cant help ya ,as we use gatwick ..sometimes sacrifices have to be made,and commuting may have to be taken into account ,,good luck ,,never done saturday,,but ave done thursday and tues ,and fri ,and monday,,yiammas
Title: Re: Can anyone Help, please?
Post by: TerryW on September 04, 2011, 06:37:37 PM
This forum is amazing. Thanks for the replies everyone and it looks like flying from Manchester could be an option on a Saturday but they have no flight details yet for July 2012. Does anyone know when they are announced? Sorry for asking so many questions on a Sunday :-)
Title: Re: Can anyone Help, please?
Post by: kevin.g on September 04, 2011, 06:41:24 PM
probably ,,the same as gatwick ,,usally the end of sept ,,,go and sign up on ,e/j site for news release of schedules,via email ..xx yiammas
Title: Re: Can anyone Help, please?
Post by: justphil on September 04, 2011, 07:04:10 PM
Terry m8, we always book EJ on the day they are released. Waiting one day cost us £30 each for this July. They only fly Monday and Friday from Bristol usually, but like Kev says every day from Gatwick.

Watch the forum (silly me -you will anyway) for when to book. Book the flights and then bother about where to stay. There will always be a bed for yous in Arillas. Poppy even said to me this summer "there will alwys be a bed here (at Bardis Sun) for you and Jen."

Hope it works out OK
Phil


Title: Re: Can anyone Help, please?
Post by: Val n Bill on September 04, 2011, 07:15:22 PM
 
Terry what about the May/June holiday next year, we are going to Rhodes with our daughter and son-law then, the childrens holidays seem to be quite early next year and manchester E/J flights are out for then I think.
We were in Arillas May/June this year and the weather was beautiful.

                    Val x
Title: Re: Can anyone Help, please?
Post by: gaye on September 04, 2011, 08:19:31 PM
E/J normally put their flight details from Manchester up in November.
Title: Re: Can anyone Help, please?
Post by: Val n Bill on September 05, 2011, 12:19:06 PM

Easy Jet manchester are showing up to end of June.

        Val x
Title: Re: Can anyone Help, please?
Post by: Jo Wissett on September 05, 2011, 12:35:29 PM
Terry last year I think it was round about Oct. I'm sure the info will be posted on the forum. Good tip is to book literally in the first few hours as the prices go up really quickly. I paid 750 for five of us return last year in Aug with EJ. This year I paid 1200 with Thomson!
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Post by: oldecross on September 05, 2011, 01:36:04 PM
What are EJ like for luggage allowances?
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Post by: TerryW on September 05, 2011, 02:56:14 PM
Thanks, once again, for all of the replies. Its a gamble I suppose when you wait to book flights after you have booked your accommodation. Its a shame that my daughter can't have the second Monday off work otherwise we could have booked flights with BMIbaby from East Midlands which fly on Mondays.

I think its worth waiting for Easyjet, even though it will mean a longer trip to Manchester airport.

If it all gets booked up it will mean Helen and I get back from Arillas on the 9th July and will HAVE to go back again on the 21st. We had better start saving but at least we can leave many things in Arillas to save on weight
Title: Re: Can anyone Help, please?
Post by: pandb on September 05, 2011, 06:26:39 PM
Hi There Terry - don't know if it's any help but in the early days of our Arillas visits we took a late Fri night flight from Gatwick.
I appreciate its not a Saturday, but I think we flew at about 10.30pm from Gatwick & allowing for travelling time & the time zone difference, we'd arrive in Arillas about 5am Saturday (poor Christos @ Kaloudis used to have to wait up for us). The big advantage was that the collection time from Kaloudis was 7pm on the Fri - i.e. you actually got the full 14 days in the resort.
This was with Thompsons staying at Kaloudis.