To be furious about these prices

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Seriously...

Flight to Corfu (3.5 hours away) during May half £905 PER PERSON (Jet2)
....The week after £307 (also JET2)

There are some marginally cheaper ones if you go Fri-Fri or whatever (still £750 per person) This is flight only, no seats, bags or meals, no accommodation included.

I am outraged. Why is having school age children penalised in this way by airlines? Who can afford to spend almost £4000 just on flights?

I realise I am lucky to even be able to afford a holiday, but it won't be this!

Supply and demand. That how a market functions.

Supply and demand. Same as anything else expensive like London housing.

It’s as simple as this.

Flights are more expensive when demand is higher. Hardly shocking.

Out of peak holidays are artificially cheap. In peak are a bit over. It’s about what they can sell.

Children aren't being 'penalised by airlines', don't be ridiculous. No one is entitled to a foreign holiday. Airlines are businesses.

Not a popular view but personally I'm glad flights are becoming more expensive, flying is horrendous for the climate and we should all be thinking more about how many flights we are taking.

As ever. Nails it.

Have kids, pay stupid prices. The airlines and holiday companies are not in it for the good of their health to make sure YOU get a holiday.

Look at other destinations they might be cheaper
Take the ferry to France
You don't have to go to corfu

I wouldn’t be able to afford £307 per person on just flights either so we’re going somewhere cheaper. That’s just life isn’t it?

Best thing to do is take them out of school for 2 or 3 days & book flights on the Wednesday or Thursday. I've saved a lot of money by doing that before.

So for about 13 years of your holidays either cost a lot or you’re don’t go. Outside of that (unless you’re a teacher) you get cheaper holidays. Not sure why the anger. It’s pretty obvious why it costs more.

Also, a holiday abroad isn’t a necessity. In fact a holiday isn’t a necessity. But if its something you choose to do , you then have to be prepared to pay whatever X costs.

Wednesday before half term from Gatwick.

Sorry, even cheaper!

Business caught in trying to make money shocker.

Clearly people will pay that op for half term. That's why the business prices it there.

One of the ideas of running a business is to try to make money.

How is this a surprise? Everyone knows school holiday holidays are much more expensive

Well yes you could take your kids out of school ..education vs sun lounger

I don’t go abroad anymore as simply can’t afford it. The hassle is getting worse too by the sounds of it. My sister spent 2.5 hrs getting through passport control at Faro when she landed in August.

Cruising is a good option, and also affordable during school holidays 👌

Name change for this for obvious reasons…

I work for a large airline in finance and the thing that shocked me the most when I joined was how low the margin per passenger is over the course of a year. It’s very much a volume business - in a once class airline like Jet2, I’d be surprised if they were making more than £25 per passenger over the course of 12 months.

Sure, you’re £905 may represent more profit than that… but the previous week could be operating at a loss. There are so many fixed costs at an airline, a leisure airline like Jet2 and TUI will be making a loss in the winter months - and their goals is to reduce that as much as possible.

Plus of course, gate fees… you want to land in Corfu in half term - cool, so do people from Germany, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Mainland Greece, Italy, Eastern Europe… so Corfu airport will charge the airlines more. Want to land there today? Significantly cheaper. Want to fly from Gatwick for half term… cool, so do millions of others so they’ll charge Jet2 a premium to do that.

I suppose there is only a certain number of seats so as long as the airline has the right number of people willing to pay that price they are fine. Other people put higher value on going to Corfu that week than you do.

You're not wrong OP, it's price gouging. Unfortunately they can get away with it. Agree with others about looking for a cheaper holiday.

Capitalism.

You could try communism if it doesn't suit you.

It's not an essential though, that or any holiday, you're not forced into anything, you either pay it and go, or you don't pay it and don't go.

There's obviously a lot of people who will pay it or they'd have to drop the prices in order to sell it.

Perhaps you've heard of capitalism...