[Albion] How are you getting to Rome?

[Ike and Tina Burner]

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.

 

[Bozza]

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.

Also considering Milan now.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

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.

Similar, but driving from Milan.

 

[Is it PotG?]

As I said, Squeezy Jet shafted at checkout as per Bozza above. Flights now in to Rome Weds evening, leave Friday morning.

 

[Brok]

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.

That is outrageous.

Edit... Actually, thinking about it, it would make sense for the airlines to have some sort of algorithm to work out which flights will be sold out at normal prices, so bump up the prices accordingly? I don't know.

 

[CroydonSeagull]

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.

that's really disgusting. I know supply demand yadda yadda economics, but on a pure human level disgusting.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

I'm going to be coming from Greece so that morning will be Paros > Athens > Rome and then back to Gawtick on the Friday morning with the rest of you scoundrels.

 

[East Staffs Gull]

Flying from Munich at 10.55am on matchday.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Flight booked with BA.

£344 return flights and decent hotel for two nights.

Flying from Heathrow 0705

 

[Giraffe]

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.

Exact same thing happened to me twice, although in in my case it said seats no longer available. Easyjet is a right ballache of a site.

Landed on the early Thursday morning Heathrow flight.

 

[Beanstalk]

Managed to get a RyanAir flight out from Stansted. Gone up by 570% since I purchased. Absolutely criminal that they can do that.

 

[Giraffe]

Best thing about it being Rome is there is plenty of choice on hotels.

 

[TomandJerry]

Just hoping the wind is blowing the right way

 

[Stato]

All roads.

 

[Lewes Punk]

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.

Might also be worth looking at Florence and fast train? (I'm lucky - I manged to get an easyjet flight but had to go a day earlier than I'd planned.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

If flights are too expensive surely you can go by car and just pick any road you like the look of...

 

[Bozza]

That is outrageous.

Edit... Actually, thinking about it, it would make sense for the airlines to have some sort of algorithm to work out which flights will be sold out at normal prices, so bump up the prices accordingly? I don't know.

It will all be programmatic as the flights hurriedly get booked up and seat availability shrinks.

I knew that which is why I got on it as soon as our name came out. Others were faster though - it's the way it goes.

 

[The Original]

ITA (Alitalia) Airways LHR-FCO (Rome). Weds pm -Fri pm (£256). Same experience with Easyjet...

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Best thing about it being Rome is there is plenty of choice on hotels.

I'm sure someone said the same about flights as well

 

[Ike and Tina Burner]

I knew that which is why I got on it as soon as our name came out. Others were faster though - it's the way it goes.

I don't know where you watched but the TNT YouTube stream was a minute or so behind.