Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Flights, Airlines and Airports => Flights to Dalaman and Turkey, Airlines and Airports => Topic started by: Toky on August 04, 2011, 19:50:10 PM
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We've been seriously looking since last weekend to book to come to Calis in September. I am soooooo mad we didn't book the flights on Monday that we saw on line. I had to get authorisation yesterday from my line mananager to have that week off. Thomas Cook flights were around £260ish each from Glasgow, now they are nearly £700 for the 2 of us, before the addition of luggage and all the extras. I wouldn't dream of paying that for flight only, so this evening we've admitted defeat and have booked for Tenerife instead. It's worked out less than T.C flights to Dalaman, and that includes the rental of a 1 bedroomed apartmentfor a week!!!
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We booked our flights last year for Aberdeen thank goodness as there have been no flights at all from Aberdeen to be booked. My daughter has tried since July all flights have all been booked up. It's such a shame another Company does not come into Scotland and give T.C. a bit of competition. I knew as soon as I heard about Aegean going bust that T.C. would put up their prices.
Sorry Toky, We will miss you... have to keep your drinks on ice until next year Inshallah
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"It's such a shame another Company does not come into Scotland and give T.C. a bit of competition."
jet2.com
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Jet2's flights are £781 excluding baggs and any extras for the same dates. All robbing barstewards.
Yip, Jacqui, very very disappointed to be missing Calis Beach this time, but hopefully, nexy May, prices permitting!
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Hi Toky,
You need to think about next May now as i have been watching the prices for the last 10 days and they have certainly increased:(
£225 return for 2 seats 10 days ago, now £497:(, couldn,t book as we both had to get it all cleared with our work
decided to take the plunge yesterday and booked 2 seats stansted to dalaman with easyjet good daytime flights both ways £364 all in..today they are £386 no luggage or card charge included in that :o
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We're seriously reconsidering now too Rosemary. We're going to keep watching over the next few weeks to see what happens. If they don't drop down any then we too will be going elsewhere. Our little bit of Turkey doesn't seem so appealing right now.
Surely it's time the government stepped in and put a stop to this sort of rip off!
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Originally posted by amca
"It's such a shame another Company does not come into Scotland and give T.C. a bit of competition."
jet2.com
Not in Aberdeen, only T.C. fly from Aberdeen:(
Toky you better book your flight now ;)
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Yes there is the knock on effect that means that many people stuck in Calis have spent their holiday money and people due there with bulging wallets are now not going to be there - just on here we have Toky missing (Tenerife) Steve Redding missing (Motorhome to Devon/Cornwall) and a large number of people who simply can't book new flights prior to getting compensated for the Aegean ones that aren't now happening.
The net result of all that for Calis is, dozens of restaurant tables that would have been occupied for dinner won't be, all the excursions lost and so it goes on and on. A very bad situation for Brits and Turks alike :-\
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Considering we got a week in April/May this year for the grand total of £335 icluding flights, transfers and hotel, these new prices are really silly!
I am sorry your holiday plans are in turmoil Anne, you must be fuming. Hope you're lucky and get something.
:)
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Started to write the above post, then got caught up on a phone call before posting. I agree Scunner that the knock on effect will be huge, not only to Calis but all the resorts serviced by Dalaman. As I said, I really hope it is a temporary situation for all involved, (here & in Turkey), and we'll get back on track next year.
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There is one thing that you can be certain of is that all the others flying to Turkey will take full advantage of the recent situation by putting a hefty premium on their flights.
The situation gets further complicated because over the next 2 or 3 weeks as most available seats will be allocated to those H4u clients stuck in Turkey.
The collapse of any tour operator means bad news for the future because it is one less competitor in the market place.
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Not sure about from other airports but certainly for next July the TC flights from Manchester have increased on the last 2 consecutive Wednesdays not by alot and not all of them either, currently it is a lot dearer to go in June than July.
Thought like most people yesterday that the knock on affect of Aegean / H4U collapsing could mean higher prices so took the plunge and booked with TC 2 weeks next July for 2 of us including all the extras that like to add on £417.96 which is the same as we paid for this year, which we booked last October.
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We're hoping that once the English school holidays are over we'll see the prices level off a little for September and October. We can easily book again now but it sticks in my throat to be ripped off. I guess that's the Scot in me.
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For the first time ever I only booked my flight one way.This was last week everyone told me for years not to panic so I will arrive in Deliktas September 3rd at the cost of £118 .The flight I was going to get back to Glasgow airport was £160 wait and pick up a cheap flight home they all said ,same flight is now £360 with Jet2.:(
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Sorry to hear Anne...hope you get sorted..its not the scottish in you I feel the same as well.
I luckily saw rhe breaking news about aegean and I had booked for 3 weeks in September next year and they were only £220 for both of us....so I instantly went onto the Monarch website and booked the same dates and they were reasonable as I just knew they would go through the roof.....we flew with them in June and go with them in 2 weeks time, for the record I honestly believe that Monarch are one of the best, more expensive but in all the times we have been with them we have never been delayed and everything is just good.....but its speak as you find I guess.....I hope I dont live to regret saying that!.
Sorry for you guys who were due to fly soon and have had your hols totally spoilt:( xx
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Our Sept 2011 flights via Aegean were booked in May 2010 and cost £275 for the pair of us. When I heard the news on Monday I rebooked with Easy Jet at a cost of £550. After, I wondered if I had "panic bought" but having done further checks I don't think so. Already booked May 2012 with Monarch at £340 for the pair of us (£292 with Aegean) but our daughter works for Monarch and gets 20% discount for family on ZB flights. They only launch MCR/DAL ZB flights in 2012 and this was planned before the demise of Aegean. Just to explain ZB flight numbers are Monarch scheduled flights whilst MON are charters.
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knock on effect to us is that we 're having to refund over a £1000 for two bookings, where our
clients can't get reasonable replacement flights, think legally we're entitled to keep the fees, but morally it's the right thing to do !! hopefully they might re book next year once the dust has settled and hopefully flights come down to a more reasonable price