So far we have been fortunate with this Year's flight times - Still no change.
However Thomson's have released Dates/Flight times for 2018 -Generally in the past there have always been plenty of 6am flights from whichever airport we choose (Northerly) but for next Year they all seem to be much later with the odd exception.
We prefer to fly early on both the outward flight (Time for a relaxing drink early afternoon) and returning home (Up, Breakfast & off)
Also booked around this time last Year for this Year's holiday & got a cracking deal but prices for Next Year at the moment are roughly £100pp more!!
I'll keep watching to see if the go down but may opt for one of the Budget Airlines again (Are they still budget though...?)
Neil & Jill
Hi
We have booked 2018 (both for Skiathos and Corfu) from Gatwick with early morning flights which we also prefer.
We are on a package with Thomson staying at the Mathraki again. Looked at flights only for Sept 2018 and the costs added to Mathraki independent rates still make a package a better deal.
Looked at EasyJet prices for Sept 2017 as a guideline for 2018 ( they have no released flights for Sept 2018), and again cheaper to go package. EasyJet were also showing a charge of £60 per suitcase for the hold and a max of 20 kilo. We could not manage with that luggage allowance. We always have 25 kilo each. As we spend all day with no clothes on, don't quite understand why. LOL
Another on cost to consider going budget flights is the transfer from the airport. Although we always have a taxi anyway.
So no budget airline for us for 2018 (nor 2017).
Geoff