[Albion] How are you getting to Rome?

[Dawn Korus]

Had tickets in basket which was wiped at 11:00. Now flying via Milan and taking scenic rail trip

Adds to the trip

 

[seagullwedgee]

Skyscanner still showing good prices from LGW flying Vueling. Are these charter extra flights? £120 return approx, check it out.

 

[dwayne]

Ah yes. Still, I'll be going from a proper airport where you don't have to walk across a field, close to Brighton and where the flight will be full of Albion.

Haha nonsense. Stansted express from Tottenham hale or Liverpool street takes you straight to the airport departures no fields !! And as the price is now 10x what I paid for it I guess it will be 90% Albion fans

 

[Jim in the West]

Had to go round the Ryan Air booking process 6 times with it throwing me out as prices increased once the tickets were in my basket. Outrageous. Got in eventually for a Wed flight out of Stanstead for £60. Gonna navigate coming home once ticket secured.

Same for me....gave up after the 4th attempt (esp as each time the prices were higher), and decided to go to Milan instead and take the train from there. Flight to Milan was £21.99 with easyJet. Flight back is €81 with BA. Trains from Milan to Rome are about €25 - €45 each way, depending on time.

 

[chimneys]

Skyscanner still showing good prices from LGW flying Vueling. Are these charter extra flights? £120 return approx, check it out.

They are via intermediaries so could well not happen as per others' experiences in Marseille. Need to book through airlines direct to make sure.

 

[Originunknown]

Looks like a lot of posters don't understand the airline's dynamic pricing models. Of course prices will rise at payment stage if more seats are sold in the time between you searching for them and trying to confirm payment. The price shown is only valid at point of search request.

We managed to get BA on Vueling from LGW for just over 200 each.

 

[Knightsworld]

Had to go round the Ryan Air booking process 6 times with it throwing me out as prices increased once the tickets were in my basket. Outrageous. Got in eventually for a Wed flight out of Stanstead for £60. Gonna navigate coming home once ticket secured.

We had a similar experience. Booked a return flight from Pisa.

 

[Rookie]

I have been reliably informed the trick was to have flights in the basket before the draw was made

Didn’t work for me, kicked me out

 

[Bozza]

Skyscanner still showing good prices from LGW flying Vueling. Are these charter extra flights? £120 return approx, check it out.

They all went a while ago.

All the flight search engines are largely useless at periods of high demand - their prices are all old.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Deserves it's own thread. Due to flight prices soaring I have opted to fly to Milan on Wednesday morning and get the train (3 hours) to Rome. I'm also flying from Milan Friday evening.

That's exactly what we're doing.

 

[Gazwag]

Didn’t work for me, kicked me out

What a pain, only passing on how somebody else did it

 

[Tarpon]

On the WIZZ from Gatwick Wed-Sat £131

 

[Lenny Rider]

Sorry 'old man alert', but is this not actually a form of touting/profiteering or is this all part of a free market economy?

 

[WestYorkshireSeagull]

Still searching. Was on easyJet the very second the draw happened and it threw me out at payment stage.

Clicked all the way through again as quickly as I could, only to get this.

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Also considering Milan now.

Naples is a decent option usually. Less train time

 

[Bozza]

Sorry 'old man alert', but is this not actually a form of touting/profiteering or is this all part of a free market economy?

Nah.

When availability reduces, prices go up - we all know that's how it works with flight prices. Usually that takes days, weeks or months to play out. In situations like today, it happens in a few minutes.

It wasn't someone sitting at a computer, noticing Brighton were away at Roma and putting all the prices up, we put the prices up ourselves by all trying to buy simultaneously.

 

[Originunknown]

LGW to Rome wed 5th with Vueling.com at 19:55 was about £70, and return on Friday 8th with Wizzair Rome to LGW at 18:50 was 135 euros or £115

Wed is the 6th, hope you haven't made a mistake there just letting you know matey

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Flights booked with Vueling from Gatwick to Florence, out Wednesday morning, back Saturday afternoon.

1.5hr train ride to Rome, two nights there: head back to Florence around Friday lunchtime, bit of sightseeing, final night there, fly home.

Lovely.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Are you making a few days of it?

I’m still working on the logistics, but I hope take a few days.

 

[essbee1]

I'm leaning towards Pisa now myself

 

[Driver8]

I got kicked out twice booking flights from Manchester. Went up from £140 to £180 in 10 minutes. Flying out Tuesday pm, back Friday am.