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Originally Posted by Golfingworld
News on Thomson Fly ex UK! Last night I tried to book a 6 week flight to Natal from the UK...it said that the return leg wasn't available as they don't fly on that day...even though that day was in their timetable. So I tried a week later...that wasn't available either. So I opened another window and booked the same return date but made the outbound 2 weeks before (not 6 weeks before)...all of a sudden in the new window the return was available to me. Why, because Thomson have tweeked their reservation system to stop flight bookings over 2 weeks..why, because they want to sell 2 week holidays and not quasi scheduled flights to property owners! These are all factors to conisder when people say "you can fly cheap to Natal"..you can't, every which way but how, they are "fixing" the capacity so you pay top price. Don't believe me, try it yourself, go to Thomson Fly or 1st Choice and try and book a 6 week return....if you get one, please tell me how as I am trying to book! I tried the same with TAP online for an outbound early December and back late January....got in ok and got a "reasonable" price only £700! Then when it came to the final click it said "seats at this price are all sold"....guess what £881 return. So if I wan tto stay there for 6 weeks I can't do it with Thomson for £500 unless I book 2 returns for two weeks and throw half the tickets away and TAP want £881 after quoting me £700. So, if you are renting to your Auntie Doris and friends for a standard 2 weeker, happy days, but if not and want to use your own property for a month or so............the banana boats still run from Bristol!
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Classic GW, you want to fly during peak season and you can't get charter flight prices.
A six week holiday in my villa in a tropical paradise for 881 pp with no other expenses except food and entertainment sounds like a pretty cheap holiday to me.