Uncompetitive pricing

[AFKAE]

I got all excited about double tier point holidays and triple Avios for Amex payments, so decided to look for a holiday late May early June.
I also had an evoucher from the deal on converting avios at 2p each last year.

I eventually settled on Kefalonia departing 31 May-scanned the BA flight + Hotel deals but couldn’t find a hotel I liked, so thought I might go flight only and do an AirBnb.

My local airport is BHX, but I’m quite happy driving to LHR as it’s an easy 90 minute trip.

Thought I would check local flight only prices too, surprising results. All based on 2 people, two checked bags and two selected seats each way (apart from BA where I’m silver so should probs be zero).

Tui departing 31/5 £848 (BHX-EFL)
Jet2 departing 1/6 £598 (BHX-EFL)
BA departing 31/5 £1347 (LHR-EFL)

Unbelievable gap you would need a lot of tier points and triple avios to pay for that! So the evoucher will have to wait for another day.

[NorthernLass]

End of May will be very inflated due to half term and Queen’s Jubilee – have you looked outside these dates? BA pricing might become a bit more competitive.

[AFKAE]

NorthernLass wrote:

End of May will be very inflated due to half term and Queen’s Jubilee – have you looked outside these dates? BA pricing might become a bit more competitive.

I used the BA holiday finder and that was the cheapest date around that time. Earlier or later were even more expensive. I think it’s in the middle of the half-term/jubilee, so people will have already gone by then.