Ever turned to airport and bought ticket?

[MountainGoat111]

Just that really. Today chatting with DH I said I would love to one time just go to an airport with passport and clothes for a few days and buy whichever ticket was available and fancied.

DH went on about how you cannot do that ... anyway, I thought if I had the time and money, wouldn’t it be great to be spontaneous like that at least once in your life.
Have you ever done it?

Yes!! If I had the money and time I would love to be able to do something like that

Or you could go to skyscanner put in your airport, select one way, direct flights only and put everywhere in destination box, then select todays date. I just tried this for Edinburgh and today (Sunday) you could go to Katowice (Poland) for £17, Beziers (France) for £18 and Girona (£20), Santander (£21) or Ibiza (£23) There are also another 8 countries you could go to for under £50. Cheapest long haul is New York Stewart on Norwegian for £209.

I was coming on to suggest Skyscanner. You could do it now for later today or tomorrow. Much easier than traisping round airport desks.

Eg, I've just found Leeds to Girona for the Costa Brava on Ryanair tomorrow until Friday for £47 return. They also have Fuerteventura for under £100 each.

Then you just need to find accomodation, but I'm sure that would be easy enough to arrange too. Booking.com, airbnb or whatever.

Missed flight once, there was an accident on the motorway and it was shut. I managed to buy a ticket luckily for the next flight at the airport

I once went to a travel agent at 4pm and booked a last minute getaway to Spain with a flight departing that evening. Went straight home packed etc and went straight to airport.
But that was August 1986.

I don't think you could do it face to face at the airport now. But you could probably sit in an airport Costa and book it online.

You can book Easter or Ryanair flights approx 1 year in advance & can get bargains. Been to Amsterdam and Copenhagen, Switzerland less than £50 return. Then book accommodation separately

Here Easyjet not Easter !

If direct with an airline it's the most expensive way to do it. Tickets are generally more expensive the closer to flying, as airlines assume you've no choice. You'd also have to go round many different airline desks.

As a pp said, finding a cheap flight on line is much more efficient unless you've money to burn.

Or you could go to skyscanner put in your airport, select one way, direct flights only and put everywhere in destination box, then select todays date

Doing this whilst at the airport would be exactly the experience the OP was hoping for too.

Tried. Went with “Can you put us on the next plane out of here?” To which the response was something like ‘Flight to Inverness okay?’ Not quite the romantic adventure we were hoping for...

I did in Bangkok when we turned up at the wrong airport just found an airline flying to where we wanted to go. Price was the same as original ticket and they let us in there lounge for free as well

Almost

Rang the airline I’m a gold member with at 3pm on the Wednesday and asked where I could fly to that evening, with a return on the Monday. Didn’t even have a case packed, and was still at work until 5.

By 6pm I was drinking cocktails in the airport lounge about to depart for Hong Kong.

Me and DH have done this. Lived close to a very large airport. We had a four day weekend booked off from work so we went to the BA desk on the Thursday night and flew out to a European city the next morning. Went to the tourist information desk at the airport to book accommodation and landed a 5 star hotel for the price of a 2 star.
This was pre-internet.

Thank you all
Great ideas here, specially the Skyscanner one. I hope in a few years to be able to do it when DC are out of school so we are not tied up to school holidays.

Btw - I was only asking for a fun reason
I had to do it when I missed flights (once) in the past.
And I know I might need to do it for family as they live in different continent...

But nice to dream of an idea like this!

I don't agree that travel insurance requires that you state your first night's accommodation.

For one thing, we have an annual policy that covers all our trips and secondly we sometimes don't have accommodation, just sort it out when we get there.