Hi Everyone,
After surfing the Internet for flights back to the UK around Xmas time, and taking up my whole Saturday sitting in my pyjamas. I have virtually come to some kind of conclusion.
There are definitely better deals than from Ryanair, it might mean the difference of a train journey from Mora La Nova/Tortosa/Tarragona etc, to get you into Barcelona airport but the end benefits are worth it.
Believe it or not check out flights with British Airways to Lonfon City Airport, if you are near that area.....allocated seat numbers, hot snack and drink on board, 23 KGS OF CHECKED IN LUGGAGE IN THE PRICE, AND HAND LUGGAGE LUGGAGE OF 10KGS , and no piddly extra prices at the cash desk.
Well worth a look.
If you look on this as part of the adventure of going back to the UK every 6 months/a year/2 years.....or in my situation almost 3 years, you can actually make a profit in some aspects.
We have now decided to fly from Barcelona early Christmas x 3 people, we dont need to take a lot of luggage, so we take the advantage of the large KGS on luggage loading all 'liguid' stuff on the hold luggage (Xmas Cava, spirits they can't buy cheaply at home, salsa brava, and other 'Catalan delicacies, and can you believe it, cartons of caldo and packets of very fine fideua)
Then I come back with lots of new clothes, after an injection of M&S, Matalan, Next etc etc Lea & perrins sauce, lots of things from 'Costco and Macro' in my 'empty cases'
There are always options if you look for them, and if everybody kicked 'Ryan O'Dreary' in the Gob he would have to react....................................cant think of the name years ago of the famous 'cheap airlines operator', but he didn't last for long either.
The consumor is king, if we dont buy tickets and find another way we win........................

I for one will not sit around waiting for the 'Paddy Idiot' to declare his latest schedule, holding small Spanish airports and staff to ransom...........................it used to be called 'monopoly of a business sector' but then again, money always did talk, no matter the colour of it or the nationality.
Jools