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Due to some airlines magic prices can grow outrageously in DAYS and we can do nothing about it. Last year I flew to and fro Egypt 3 times, all Wash. DC/Cairo or Alex and prices differed from under $1,000 to over $3,000!!!!!! (I sure did not pay over $3,000 ) Same flights, some destinations, different dates. It is better to book earlier: search for a week, compare the prices, and then grab what seems like the best deal and BUY! Online greatest deals disappear in seconds (happened to me, I was 'clicking' too slow once.... )! Good luck.
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Just had a thought from what Karah Mia said, as well as seasonal variations, i.e. its cheaper if you travel low season (November to March) than high season (July to September), you can also get cheaper flights if you travel mid-week, i.e. Tuesday to Thursday.
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quote:Originally posted by newcomer: Just had a thought from what Karah Mia said, as well as seasonal variations, i.e. its cheaper if you travel low season (November to March) than high season (July to September), you can also get cheaper flights if you travel mid-week, i.e. Tuesday to Thursday.
You got it wrong, high season in Egypt is winter & spring, this is the best time to visit Egypt but prices do go up during this time of year. Low season would be summer e.g. June to September.
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quote:Originally posted by newcomer: Just had a thought from what Karah Mia said, as well as seasonal variations, i.e. its cheaper if you travel low season (November to March) than high season (July to September), you can also get cheaper flights if you travel mid-week, i.e. Tuesday to Thursday.
You got it wrong, high season in Egypt is winter & spring, this is the best time to visit Egypt but prices do go up during this time of year. Low season would be summer e.g. June to September.
Hi Ann!
Wasn't there a more polite way that you could have made that comment?
I was thinking about Ki$$7eaven travelling from the UK and it is usually the case that the months I mentioned are the seasonal variations from there. However the point of my message was more to mention that the days of the week can affect flight prices too, and that it might be worth him trying to check prices for different days.
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actually, ann when you fly from the states to egypt, you have to do a stop-over via europe (unless you're doing a direct flight from new york)
it's the high season in europe, therefore the total price of your air ticket (if you fly any of the usually reasonably-priced european based airlines) is actually much more than in winter.
in the UK on the other hand, the air tickets are often part of a holiday package and any sun/sea destinations are always more expensive in the cold months than in the summer. hence, from the uk, it may cost less to fly to egypt in summer but from the us, it costs more - generally speaking.
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Original post was about flight tickets from UK to Egypt & I know that fares to Egypt tend to be more expensive in winter vs summer (lower demand in summer).
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It is rather pointless to talk of high or low season in a particular country, since availability of aircraft is determined by the demand in the country of origin. So whilst "High Season" in Egypt is in the winter months, "High Season" would be in the summer months in Spain. This has the effect of available planes being concentrated on the most popular places at the time. This has the knock on effect of affecting prices and availability (supply and demand) to other places. Sometimes this could result in very cheap fares if planes to certain locations are unable to fill up.
So, it really is just a question of keep searching and hope one strikes lucky for a special offer on a flight difficult to fill at the time. It really has nothing to do with "season". Posts: 304 | From: egypt | Registered: Dec 2005
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Air Malta, do a flight from London to Malta then connect from malta to larnaca, then through to cairo. Stop over times vary but you can get huge savings. I did last april. A Romanian airline its either called Tarom do one from london to Budapest then change for Cairo. This was the cheapest flight !! But it was a very basic service, noisy, and quite primitive!! If you want savings and dont mind changing try this one. http://www.tarom.ro/english/index.php It will not give you the cairo flight on the booking page!! Call them and they will arrange it for you. Hope this helps.... Posts: 57 | Registered: Nov 2005
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Ki$$7eaven have just checked web site for tarom airlines, London to Cairo - £481.60. Try "Just the Flight" web site, flight to Cairo from LHR with 1 stop £226.20.
These prices are for beginning of April, when are you thinking of going?
Hope this helps!
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BA is advertising flights to Alex for 325. Since few airlines fly to Alex, you will get better variety via Cairo. The other option is to find a chartered flight to Sharm and take a bus.
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a bus..... it takes 12 hours to go there or more...
im sure domestic flight are cheap...
there are so many possibilty to save money... i mean you can save at least 1000EGP I reckon.. and thats your rent paid for the one or two months there....
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hahaa everyone talking of so many different originating points. I have traveled to egypt 5 times since june of 2003, each time was a different price.. i went in june the first time and it was 1200 went to new york then to cairo via egypt air, no layover anywhere else other than new york, then i went in late december for 1300 and that one was 2 layovers in the states but then straight from new york to cairo on egypt air again, then again in march 2004.. that one was 1100, on egypt air, again 2 layovers in the states and straight to cairo with egypt air. Went again last december 2004, that one was 832 via air france, 2 plane changes in the states then off to paris then to cairo... next was may of 2005 that one was 1100 via egypt air again.. same thing lay overs in states then straight to cairo from new york.. getting ready to travel in feb back to cairo,, am taking american airlines..found a ticket for 938.. one stop in the states, then off to frankfurt germany then to cairo, return is from cairo to london then to states... so as you see it almost always different depending on the airline but the price always always changes no matter what time of year availability is the thing that matters in the "high season low season"
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yes, the bus does take a while but i don't know if you're a student, etc. and some people have time time, but not the money. if you're a foreigner, then domestic flights are about $250-300 round trip. If you're egyptian or have residency, then about LE 300
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If anyone is travelling to or from the Red Sea this is the cheapest site I know. www.redseaflights.com Might be useful to go via red sea and get internal flight to Cairo or Alex?
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It is not possible to predict air flight prices based on previous examples as it is a volatile market which changes constantly according to supply and demand. You are all entirely wasting your time and effort. The only thing one can do is what the travel and ticket agents do, trawl through all the prices offered by the budget airlines and look for the CURRENT best deals, and even they can change within minutes!!!! Posts: 304 | From: egypt | Registered: Dec 2005
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quote:Originally posted by karena: Ki$$7eaven have just checked web site for tarom airlines, London to Cairo - £481.60. Try "Just the Flight" web site, flight to Cairo from LHR with 1 stop £226.20.
These prices are for beginning of April, when are you thinking of going?
I am going beginning of April and that was Italia Airlines there is another good site called Packyourbags.com. If you have not got an exact date, my travel department at work told me to go onto lastminute.com a week before and I should get a cheap flight.
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If you look at the breadown of the price of your flight, you may notice that almost a third of the ticket is taken up with Tax and air fees. The price of the ticket has not increases all that much but the tax has....due to fuel cost for various reasons..... Posts: 290 | Registered: Feb 2005
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I just was in Alex last year in June ant therefore know that "the season" there do not know if for ailines also but definitely for hotels and apartments, starts from 15 June to appr 15 Aug. For Alex indeed summer is the seasn beause all other seasons are too cold, and because local people have along tradition of taking vacations there with families (starting immediately after exams in schools, i.e. middle of June). First of all the beaches are better than in red sea for people who never go in water anyway and secondly it is still cheaper than read sea, for them. Prices of all rental apartments and hotels may rise up tp 3 times for that short period.
CSA flies to Cairo rather cheaply, and has a lot of connecting flights from Europe, if you wish take that way. I think they have a strategy of turning Prague into some sort of gigant flight hub. Nothing glamorous but decent new small Boeings, good crew, hot gulash... I fly with them for around 360EUR, a return trip of around 10000 km. 24 hour stays in Prague are allowed I think, if your schedule allows, but be prepared for high prices (in city) and somewhat high-brow service, though nothing else to complain of, life is simply too good in Czechia these days it seems (sorry!) Posts: 1051 | From: Menoufeya | Registered: Feb 2005
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quote:Originally posted by TheWesternDebt2Islam aka Ki$$ aka K: can i check their flight price online?
Their system is a bit complicated but they seem to fly e.g. from London every day at least 3 flights, but they fly to Cairo I think twice a week just now - on wednesdays and sundays, back on thursdays and mondays. So, a trial search I made, flying from LON on Sun Feb 5 14.40 and spending 3,5 hours in Prague, arriving in Cairo 02.10 at night, and flying back from Cairo night of Sun to Mon of Feb 20, at 03.05 and continuing to London immediately, to arrive at 08.10, or spending around 6 hours in Prague (time for coffee i Old town, they have a convenient minibus service from airport into heart of old city each 30 min) and arriving in London 13.45 on Monday, gave results like 286 and 356 GBP and upwards. Now, have no idea if this nearly 300GBP is competitive enough.
Try yourself at www.csa.cz with maybe Frankfurt? or any other place convenient for you (and lower on flight taxes) or try contact some of their agencies listed there because their web really is not very convenient.
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take alook at these prices-unfortunatley dont think they do Alex????
Gatwick to Luxor, Egypt £99 Per Adult Monday 13 March 2006 7 Nights Date Route Flight No. Depart Arrive Mon 13 Mar 2006 LGW to LXR TBA info 1045 TBA info Mon 20 Mar 2006 LXR to LGW TBA info TBA info 2245 Last checked on: 2006-03-10 2342 Reference ID= 6122
Telephone bookings only Please call 0845 045 0153
Gatwick to Luxor, Egypt £99 Per Adult Monday 13 March 2006 7 Nights Date Route Flight No. Depart Arrive Mon 13 Mar 2006 LGW to LXR FCA594 1045 1805 Mon 20 Mar 2006 LXR to LGW TBA info 1905 2245 Last checked on: 2006-03-11 0806 Reference ID= 6123
Telephone bookings only Please call 0845 045 0153
Gatwick to Luxor, Egypt £99 Per Adult Monday 13 March 2006 7 Nights Date Route Flight No. Depart Arrive Mon 13 Mar 2006 LGW to LXR TBA info TBA info TBA info Mon 20 Mar 2006 LXR to LGW TBA info TBA info TBA info Last checked on: 2006-03-10 1903 Reference ID= 6124
Telephone bookings only Please call 0845 045 0153
Gatwick to Marsa Alam, Egypt £109 Per Adult Friday 28 April 2006 5 Nights Date Route Flight No. Depart Arrive Fri 28 Apr 2006 LGW to RMF BY002A 1115 1730 Wed 03 May 2006 RMF to LGW AEU318 1730 2115 Last checked on: 2006-03-11 0632 Reference ID= 6125
Telephone bookings only Please call 0845 045 0153
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Ps they have other dates and prices-flights to hurgarda sharm are coming out reasonable but flight to Luxor are really expensive why???
When i was there in Jan an ex-pat told me that they are trying to get tourist to go to the Red Sea instead of Luxor, and only visit on tour buses, anyone heard anything about this?????
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I want to form a coop for traveling to egypt lots of egyption in the uk would love to save few £ going home just think book the all the flight out and back get full and you save a ££££££ sound not easy you think but with a coop it is if there is 300 to 500 egyption join it would be a start
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they have lots of dates and different airports i just got flight for £218.00 for 14 nights for the 17th april
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I'm looking for the cheapest possible flight from Cairo to London, departing on Monday 20th March, preferably late afternoon (or even Tuesday 21st March). It doesn't have to be a direct flight.........with a view to returning to Egypt on Monday 3rd April.
Does anyone have any suggested websites to look at? Or any experience with a particular airline that does economical flights?
I saw an ad recently, Air France and KLM have some offers on at the moment...Cairo London 2100 LE (pre-tax). Fares are valid for sales and travel from Cairo. Air France, Tel: 77026262 www.airfrance.com/eg or KLM, Tel: 58055747/58055757 www.klm.com/egPosts: 4576 | From: Cairo | Registered: Jun 2002
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Hi Enigma - I've been looking for a one-way flight for the same day. Strange coincidence! Czech Airlines is around 2200 LE, and I think Egypt Air's direct flight is only 2940 (both of these are just one way prices though). Air Malta is the cheapest I've found - one way for 1827 LE - contact airlines@emeco.com - they should be able to find a good deal for you (the cheapest quotes I've found!). Good luck!
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