Jet 2

[trainer]

Me and her indoors were looking to fly out on the 14th of July for a week so I have been looking at the various websites and Jet 2 seemed to be the cheapest so I went through the process of booking with them just to find out the total cost of the flight
 This is a breakdown of costs
Advertised price to start with, going out £229.98 return £195.98 total £425.96
With 1 case and on line check in £480
With pre booked seats £504
Credit card £541, Debit card £523, Electron £504 and Pay Pal £533 these are total costs
The credit card price was split £18.18 for booking fee and credit card was £18.83
What got me was the cost of checking in, online £12, and airport check in £38
I always expect to be charged more than the advertised price but £115
The only positive thing is that at the moment Jet 2 are the cheapest but not by much
So be aware

[Bluwise]

Completely agree, you have no idea of the full cost until you have faffed about entering all of your info into the forms.  After 3 or 4 "trial" bookings to see the true cost,  you have lost the will to live and just hit "cancel" out of desperation.  Then you are inundated with emails from them asking why you haven't booked!

When I'm looking for flights, I have started noting additional costs for various airlines so that I have an idea what to add on to their advertised prices - it's ridiculous.
Jet2 do seem good prices currently but their cheaper ones tend to be late flight times out of Manchester

[jondo]

Is it true that once you complete a search the airline/s log it and the more searches completed for a given route the more they manipulate their prices? We have held off booking the August flights because they are so outrageously expensive in the hope (probably forlorn) that if enough of us do the same thing it may force the airlines to lower prices since they are committed to landing slots, aircrew wages, etc. Am I wide of the mark?

[trainer]

Before any search always delete your cookies, as I move from site to site I delete cookies, temporary internet files and history this seems to do the trick

[bewva]

Before any search always delete your cookies, as I move from site to site I delete cookies, temporary internet files and history this seems to do the trick

That approach has never worked for me I don't know why, I've even tried a different computer before but not found a difference.

[Scunner]

It's a little old now as practices go - easyjet were terrible for it. You'd do a search, get a price, come back tomorrow and each flight would be a tenner more (£80 for a family of 4 two ways). Delete cookies, £80 cheaper. I always check and haven't seen it happen for a year or two.

[jondo]

Thanks for the tip. I hope it has some bearing although I can't help feeling that they know when people are looking on the website even if they can't tell who if cookies have been deleted.