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TODAY ONLY: Book LEVEL flights from Gatwick to Vienna at 2p return

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We wrote the other day about IAG’s launch of LEVEL as a low-cost short-haul carrier based out of Vienna.  With flights due to launch on 17th July, they are desperate to shift seats.

For TODAY ONLY, LEVEL is selling 50,000 seats at 1 Eurocent each.  Availability is very generous.

For HfP readers, the only route of interest is likely to be London Gatwick to Vienna.  2 Eurocents return gets you a flight plus cabin baggage.

Other routes are Vienna to Palma, Barcelona, Malaga, Venice, Olbia, Ibiza, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Milan Malpensa, Dubrovnik, Larnaca, Alicante, Valencia and Bilbao.

Gatwick flights start on 17th July.  Other routes have later start dates.

Because LEVEL does not have its own booking site yet, you need to book at the Vueling website here.  Search for a random set of dates and, once you have that on screen, you will see a ‘View whole month’ option.

The Vueling website is here – note that it is running slowly …..


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Comments (129)

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  • Joe B says:

    Thanks Rob! Booked 9 seats return LGW-VIE for €0.18 via the app.

  • Alfie Croft says:

    LGW – VIE looks to be gone for July but check yourself in case its a cookies thing

  • George says:

    Cheers Rob – I had to pay a shocking 25eur on the way out, but got 1c on the way back. Not bad for a quick weekend away!

  • D says:

    Try Firefox… It wouldn’t work in Safari for me but worked in Firefox, just kept the website in Spanish! Got 1p on the way back, had the choice of 24.99 or 30.99 on the way but went for the better time and more experience flight.

  • MarkUK says:

    Can anyone tell me how to see the month view – just cant find it! Cheers…

    • devin says:

      I think they’ve removed that function, it was to the right of the dates on the results page. Maybe that was overloading the servers as it must generate a lot of queries.

  • Catalan says:

    Can’t find the ‘view month’ option 🙁

  • Nick Burch says:

    Just managed to snag some return flights at that 1c price, and outbound for about 25, so not too bad. Mid-week returning from VIE to LGW in October seems to still have quite a few, if you can get the website to stay up long enough to click through everything (took me 3 tries…)

  • Anonymous says:

    Got them for three days in September 0.01 both ways for two pax!

    Keep trying, it will take a while. App seems more susceptible to failure than the website.

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