Anyone's upcoming flights threatened with cancellation because of fuel costs?

[Efour]

SAS are cancelling or in the process of cancelling "1000" flights after Easter in April...

Oh yippee.


Has anyone else had anything like this brought to their attention?
How's easyJet? Ryanair? The other budget or lower end companies?

Anyone's long haul flights affected?

 

[brendy]

I'm off again to the US in less than 2 weeks but when I priced it then bought, within a week, the price had gone up by 300 quid so I'm expecting it to be fine.

 

[happy_2008]

I purchased tickets last August for £580, the same equivalent ticket now is £1800

 

[the-evaluator]

Flight prices are somewhat daft at the moment. I (unfortunately) need to head to Paris for work next month and usually let work pay about £450 return from LHR to CDG with BA. I've ended up going with Veuling LHR - ORY (more convenient airport for me actually) for €300 because BA & Air France were > £1200 for the dates I need to be there.

 

[doodah]

Eyeing up Sardinia flights later in the year, gone up nearly £200 in a week (for 3 people though) - could be worse I guess.

However, our flights to Jordan have been cancelled but that was fully expected.

 

[Bear]

Paid up for our holiday in May to Greece and paid up for my trip in October to trek around Patagonia and havent heard anything yet

 

[ci_newman]

I've got a trip to Egypt planned later this year, pretty sure that between fuel costs and issues in the region they will get cancelled

 

[adidan]

Paid for later in the year, Finnair say no fuel problems and it was cheaper than last year.

Go figure.

 

[Efour]

Yeah im looking at flights to London August "same old price"
FLights to Majorca in October As of today double the price both ways....stupid but not unaffordable....

 

[Bear]

paid up for my trip in October to trek around Patagonia and havent heard anything yet

My return flight to Buenos Aires was cancelled for October already

 

[Efour]

My return flight to Buenos Aires was cancelled for October already

Which airline? Is it part of Star Alliance?

 

[Bear]

Which airline? Is it part of Star Alliance?

BA

 

[SeatIbiza]

I booked Thailand in September. The outbound flight with BA (Qatar) has been cancelled twice and moved from Gatwick to LHR...which is not very useful!

I'm not sure what to do yet about it...

 

[Macky]

I booked Thailand in September. The outbound flight with BA (Qatar) has been cancelled twice and moved from Gatwick to LHR...which is not very useful!

I'm not sure what to do yet about it...

We're wanting to visit Thailand in March next year. Looks like BA do a direct from LGW to BK. Hopefully things will have settled a bit nearer the time..

 

[SeatIbiza]

We're wanting to visit Thailand in March next year. Looks like BA do a direct from LGW to BK. Hopefully things will have settled a bit nearer the time..

I can't imagine it will still be ongoing (although #Ukraine), but they cancelled my initial LGW flight a few weeks back, and have cancelled the replacement LHR flight. However, you can still book from LGW...I need to look into whether this cancellation means it's compensatable! Part of me hopes that it will all be sorted and flights back on, but who knows.

We are going London>Doha>Phuket. I've only flown Emirati carriers that way so always a stop in the middle east!

 

[Scam]

Not got flights booked yet but I'm having an ongoing argument wiht my girlfriend about whether to actually book a holiday for the time we have off in the middle of June.. All I wanted to do was have a week or so somewhere in Greece (or similarly warm). I prefer booking things separately (especially if you're flying + ferry to a nice island for example) but she';s arguing that we should probably book a package with TUI or someone so that if something gets cancelled we're nicely covered. Any truth to that? Particularly with Greece, the islands that you can fly direct from are noticeably more touristy and "meh" in my limited experience. And we'd by flying from Heathrow so I dont know if that makes it more or less likely to have flights cancelled...

 

[Efour]

Not got flights booked yet but I'm having an ongoing argument wiht my girlfriend about whether to actually book a holiday for the time we have off in the middle of June.. All I wanted to do was have a week or so somewhere in Greece (or similarly warm). I prefer booking things separately (especially if you're flying + ferry to a nice island for example) but she';s arguing that we should probably book a package with TUI or someone so that if something gets cancelled we're nicely covered. Any truth to that? Particularly with Greece, the islands that you can fly direct from are noticeably more touristy and "meh" in my limited experience. And we'd by flying from Heathrow so I dont know if that makes it more or less likely to have flights cancelled...

Unfortunately I think she's right this time an all in package flight holiday "could " unlikely though, still get cancelled but as it's all with TUI you get that extra layer of protection for sure.

I'm on the cusp of booking 2 flights in October. Which no one in our group of 4 seems bothered about except me....lol

 

[JRJ]

Not got flights booked yet but I'm having an ongoing argument wiht my girlfriend about whether to actually book a holiday for the time we have off in the middle of June.. All I wanted to do was have a week or so somewhere in Greece (or similarly warm). I prefer booking things separately (especially if you're flying + ferry to a nice island for example) but she';s arguing that we should probably book a package with TUI or someone so that if something gets cancelled we're nicely covered. Any truth to that? Particularly with Greece, the islands that you can fly direct from are noticeably more touristy and "meh" in my limited experience. And we'd by flying from Heathrow so I dont know if that makes it more or less likely to have flights cancelled...

This is our normal route of booking, car hire, flights and accommodation separately and avoid the tour operator areas but gave in for a week in Greece in July to be on the safe side and avoid any wife/children disappointment

 

[Scam]

Which no one in our group of 4 seems bothered about except me....lol

I know a few people that live in ignorant bliss. It does seem easier a lot of the time… Certainly easier on the old stress levels

This is our normal route of booking, car hire, flights and accommodation separately and avoid the tour operator areas but gave in for a week in Greece in July to be on the safe side and avoid any wife/children disappointment

Nice, whereabouts? Our problem is we need stuff to do. My girlfriend doesn’t swim so sitting on the beach or by the pool all week is a no-go. We need some culture, good food etc. which is hard to find if you’re bussed into a mega-hotel with 3 pools, 4 average restaurants and nothing to walk to.

 

[JRJ]

I know a few people that live in ignorant bliss. It does seem easier a lot of the time… Certainly easier on the old stress levels

Nice, whereabouts? Our problem is we need stuff to do. My girlfriend doesn’t swim so sitting on the beach or by the pool all week is a no-go. We need some culture, good food etc. which is hard to find if you’re bussed into a mega-hotel with 3 pools, 4 average restaurants and nothing to walk to.

We went with Rhodes just as it suited our dates and local airport but opted for a well reviewed hotel without any large slides and waterparks, on the beach and roughly 3.5km from the old town of Rhodes so plenty to do and see.