Cool, I look forward to reading your trip reports! I did some myself the last time we went to Orlando in 2009.Originally Posted by Dads_Taxi
We are now actually looking to book flights with Thomson (who I've flown with before) as we needed to reschedule our plans to go a little earlier - costing us in the region of £640 per person - which is a fair bit more expensive than the Monarch flight but our circumstances dictate that's when we have to go.... C'est la vie
We have just booked with BA from Edinburgh via Gatwick at £510,64, for November/January which is the cheapest we have managed to find. Our family who are coming out for Christmas on 20th December have paid around £800 for the adults and about £700 each for the children of 3and 5 years with Continental. It is really becoming extortionate.
Andrena
We fly out on 26th May with BA into Tampa from Gatwick. Booked the seats within a week of being available and cost us £2700 for 2 adults and 2 children. Charter flights for us into Sanford were coming in at the same price by the time baggage was added and the other bits and pieces, but a better baggage allowance on BA.
BA into Orlando was £3100 for the same time and Virgin was even more than that!!!! Out of curiostity I kept checking the prices after I booked and apart from a couple of weeks where the price dropped it either stayed at the same point or higher.
First time flying into Tampa but shouldn't take much longer to get to the villa we're staying in as it's on the I27 compared with the journey from Orlando Airport.
I dread to think what the flights will cost next year.
Mark
Just checked again and now BA is up to £3100 into Tampa and £3550 into Orlando - Virgin £2750.
I know we are within a month of going but it always surprises me how much the flight prices vary. Looking at various capacity checkers and it seems the Tampa plane isn't full and has plenty of capacity.
Last edited by MarkF; 28-04-2012 at 07:37.
i don't know which sites you're looking at but BA seat maps can be misleading because in most cases they don't allocate them to passengers in advance (unless you pay of course). As a result, the cabin seems to have more capacity that is actually the case.
That said, there is still decent availability on your flight but not for discounted economy fares.
Last edited by Katys Grandad; 28-04-2012 at 10:38.
Hi Katys Grandad
I use flightstats.co.uk to give a rough indication (based on availble fares) and I do find the info a bit misleading as I don't know what all of the individual fare class codes mean so can only go by availability in each cabin. For Tampa the BA flight is showing at 9+ seats for each fare class in economy apart from S and G which are 4 and 1 available.
For Orlando, BA and Virgin are showing fewer fare classes with availability across all cabins, so I'm presuming a fuller plane.
I'm waiting for online check-in to open to see what seats we get allocated on the plane as it's 3-3-3 layout and four of us travelling. I refuse to pay to reserve seats as the tickets cost enough to begin with. In the past we've been lucky when check-in opens to rejig the seats, but that all depends on how full the plane is of course.
Either way - just a 9 and a bit hour flight and we're there.
Mark
Hi Mark
I reckon you'll be OK if you're quick off the mark at the 24 hours in advance point.
Enjoy your trip.
We flew BA LGW to TPA March this year. Although able to check-in on-line 24hrs before flight for both outgoing & return flights & able to re-allocate seats outgoing, return check-in had seat allocation 'greyed out' with no selection possible !!
If you couldn't select anything for reallocation on your return flight was it full when you boarded or was it a fault with the online system?
Not a fault with on-line system as was able to print boarding passes for return trip & 'plane certainly not full....
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