From The Kitchen Table

Among the many irritating mysteries of my life is why, apparently, the rest of the world can find cheap flights on which they can circumnavigate the world whereas I cannot. Even if I think I’m there it always turns out that if I’d saved the time and gone straight to the carrier’s web site I could get the flight for about the same money.

I thought I’d cracked it this week. BA flight from Heathrow to Edinburgh (yes, I’m off north of the border again) was £139, but Flybe from Birmingham offered a flight out for £9.90 and a return for something in the £24.00 region. And the times were better so I got booking with a song in my heart. So how come I ended up paying £106? Well, firstly they charge extra for booking on line, then they charge extra for the airport and fuel taxes which is a whopping amount. Then, every checked in bag is charged for and so is booking and reserving a seat on-line. By the time I found out that I was only saving something in the region of £35 I was so far into the system that frankly Id almost given up the will to live, let alone fly.

I keep trying to find the elusive ‘cheap’ flights. There’s not a travel web site I don’t know. I just don’t know how to use them.

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