12 months of prices for Virgin

[IanW]

Not sure if this has been done before but I recorded prices for the past 12 months for Virgin flights from Manchester to Orlando for 3 adults and one child from Saturday 2nd August to Saturday 16th August in economy. Prices from Virgin website.
Also recorded cost of Miles plus money when this was available.

xxxxxxxxNormal cost xxxxxxx Miles plus Money

October 4th £3014 xxxxxx Not available
November 3rd £2809 xxxxxx £2479
November 16th £3053 xxxxxx £2479
December 8th £3093 xxxxxx £2519
December 13th £3094 xxxxxx Not available
January 1st £3095 xxxxxxxxx £2522 (Sun-Sun)
January 7th £3229 xxxxxxx No further M+M available
February 2nd £3398
February 14th £3569
March 6th £3588
March 21st £3417
March 31st £3608
April 3rd £3745
April 12th £3981 (Sun-Sun)
April 21st £3990
May 1st £3389 (Mon-Sat)
May 8th £3519
May 15th £3351
June 1st £3434 (Tues-Sat)
June 24th £3470 (Sat-Fri)
July 7th £3784 (Sun-Mon)
July 29th £3672 (Sat-Fri)

Hope this is of use to someone but I guess every year is different.
Ian

[Ian Dee]

well done Ian.
Must have taken a while to compile,also the M+M is a minefiel to wade through

[ncmurray]

Very useful, and very interesting!

Thanks for that

Nuala

[Katys Grandad]

That's interesting and shows that when you actually bite the bullet and confirm is important.

I'm wondering if these prices are all the same fare class of ticket, by which I mean that the price will vary as Virgin release discounted fares throughout the year. In fact, it's not unusual for a fare to change during the course of a single day as the cheapest are snapped up.

I suspect that the list contains a variety of fare classes which would go some way towards explaining the differences.

[sundowner]

We looked at Virgin using miles plus money and compared them with just money. The amount of miles we needed was not worth losing and paid the whole fare instead.

[ali-uk]

It shows the earlier you book the cheaper it is.
We just booked our flydrive with Virgin for next Nov 09 if the price does come down then its tuff luck for us, if it went up any more we wouldnt be going.
I have been checking the prices for 18 months knowing we would be booking for 2009 and from last year to this the price for that time of year has gone up around £500!
I have booked this early because i know we would not be able to afford to go if the prices go up any more.
Thanks Ian

[domster]

I always say if you are happy with the price of the tickets, book them. We ended up paying more a few years ago as we left it to the last minute.