Savings and Deals

Book by midnight on Tuesday, December 8: Monarch is running a Christmas Seat Sale with 35 per cent off all return flights for travel until February 8, 2010.

Anyone booking through the low-cost carrier's website will automatically benefit from the discount provided that they purchase their seats before midnight on Tuesday.

Monarch's Christmas Seat Sale ends at midnight on Tuesday, November 24. Book by then to save £30 on return flights and travel until February 8, 2010.

When we searched for a getaway from Manchester to Alicante after Christmas, we found outbound flights on Tuesday, January 5, for £18.99, and a return flight on Tuesday, January 12, for £18.99, a reduction of £15 each way....

Sale ends at midnight tonight (Friday, November 20): Book quickly to get this special fare to Iceland.

Iceland Express is offering flights to Reykjavík, Iceland's buzzy capital city, from £55 one-way including taxes and charges.

Fly from London Gatwick or Stansted airports and travel before December 15.

Book by Thursday, November 19. Aer Lingus is discounting Summer 2010 flights by 20 per cent. The Irish airline is applying the discount to "every flight, every seat, every day" to Europe and Ireland. Travel between April 1 and June 23, 2010.

The following routes are discounted. London Gatwick to Bucharest, Nice, Eindhoven and Vilnius. Flights to Faro, Warsaw, Malaga, Vienna,...

Sale ends at midnight on Thursday, November 19: American Airlines (AA) is having a four-day sale on flights to the US.

Flights to New York start at £289 return, including taxes and charges. Travel until December 15 and, after Christmas, between January 5 and March 25.

American Airlines' line-up of bargains, all departing from Heathrow Airport, looks like this:...

Book by Sunday, November 15, to snap up a £129 flight (return including taxes, fees and charges) to Europe with Lufthansa.

The German airline's eye-catching promotion takes in several in-demand European cities, the likes of Prague, Naples, Rome, Venice, Verona, Bucharest, Budapest and Warsaw.

Other cities include Bari in Southern Italy, Basel in Switzerland and...

Book flights before Tuesday, November 17: Air Canada's sale to destinations in Canada and the United States is on now with return flights from £298 including taxes and charges. Travel by December 14 and, after Christmas, between January 7 and March 31, 2010.

The lineup of bargain flights to Canada - departing from London Heathrow Airport - is as follows:...

Book by Friday November 13 and save up to 25 per cent off. The Irish national carrier, Aer Lingus, is offering travellers up to 25 per cent off Christmas travel to popular destinations in Ireland and Europe.

A sample of the routes is as follows:

London Gatwick to Zurich

London Gatwick to Munich

London Gatwick to Vienna

Sale ends at midnight on Tuesday, November 10: Monarch Airlines is offering up to £40 off the cost of return flights to the Canary Islands - Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Tenerife or Gran Canaria - this winter.

An extra sweetener is a 50 per cent discount on the cost of carrying luggage on the flights (about £8 instead of approximately £16 per checked bag).

Monarch...

Emirates Airline is another major carrier having a sale. The Dubai-based airline has discounted the price of return flights from the UK to the Middle East, Africa and Asia to bring them under the £500 mark (with taxes). There are also flights to Australia and New Zealand.

Book by November 30 and travel, in most cases, until March 25, 2010. There are several UK departure...

A nice little sweetener from Scandinavian Airlines (SAS). The carrier is offering a free 24-hour Stockholm card, worth £33, to travellers who book return flights to the Swedish capital before December 31.

The airline has flights from London Heathrow to Stockholm Arlanda Airport from £69 one-way including taxes and charges. There's also a service from Manchester Airport from £99...

Sale ends at midnight on Tuesday, November 10. EasyJet has discounted its fares - on every flight, on every route and on every day - by up to 30 per cent for travel until March 31, 2010.

To bag a sale fare, select flights and travel dates as usual. The lower fares will be displayed on the "Choose your flight" page.

Book by Tuesday, November 17, to make big savings on British Airways' flights. The global carrier has discounted the price of flights worldwide for travel until March 2010.

This sale covers all classes of travel. Economy and Premium-Economy flights must be booked by November 17, but for those with deeper pockets, the Business-Class and First-Class sale ends one week...

Book before midnight on Wednesday, October 21, to pick up one of Flybe's "free" flights. The regional airline is having a "just pay the taxes and charges" sale to several popular cities including Amsterdam, Paris, Edinburgh, Dublin and London. A sample of the routes is as follows:

Exeter or Southampton to Amsterdam Exeter to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) Exeter or...

Book by Saturday, October 31, to save on flights with SAS. The Scandinavian carrier is offering Economy Extra flights to the US and Asia from £869 return including taxes and charges.

Economy Extra is SAS's premium economy class, a happy place between Business and Economy Class, with extra legroom, wider seats, Business class check-in and laptop power, and, free access to...

Get your promotional code by tonight, Friday, October 16. Here's an exciting offer from Lufthansa.

Visit the German airline's website at promotion.lufthansa.com/lmgb, fill in the form, retrieve the personal promotion code that will be sent to your email address and save £65 off the next flight booked with Lufthansa to the US or Asia/Pacific.

You must book flights by Monday,...

Book by midnight tonight (Monday, October 12) to snap up a "free" flight with Monarch. The holiday airline is offering flights for taxes and charges only to choice winter-sun destinations including Malaga, Alicante, Murcia and Barcelona in Spain and Faro, Portugal.

This offer applies to scheduled flights booked online at www.monarch.co.uk only; charter flights...

Book by Monday, October 12: Aer Lingus is offering £20 off the cost of return flights to Europe for travel between November 4 and March 24, 2010.

The destinations covered by this offer are a neat mix of city break and beach. Depart from Gatwick Airport, from where the Irish airline has launched a slew of new routes, to the following cities: Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Bucharest,...

Virgin Atlantic's Asia and Africa sale ends this week. Book by Friday, October 9, to scoop up one of the cheap flights to Dubai (from £324), Nairobi (from £379), Mauritius (from £550) or Johannesburg (from £589).

Flights from London to Dubai, the tiny glitzy emirate, cost from £324 for the month of November (Flight number 400/401).

London-Nairobi...

Book your winter-sun flights with Monarch before midnight on Tuesday, October 6, and save £30.

The holiday airline is increasing its web discount for flights in November, December and January to any of Monarch's winter-sun destinations. These are Lanzarote, Malaga, Alicante, Faro, Fuerteventura, Gibraltar, Larnaca (Cyprus), Menorca, Majorca and Tenerife.

TAP Portugal's current specials include flights to Lisbon and Porto from London from £52 one-way including taxes. There are also bargain flights to North and South America (Sao Paulo, Rio De Janeiro, Caracas), but the most eye-catching offer is a snippy £300 fare (return with taxes) to New York.

Travel by November 30 and between January 10 and March 31, 2010.

Book by midnight on Tuesday, October 6, to snap up a bargain in easyJet's sale. The airline has discounted flights by up to a quarter.

To find the cheaper flights, enter the departure point, destination and travel dates as normal. The results page will show all the sale fares.

Bmibaby has released more than four million seats priced from a very low £2.99 one-way including taxes for travel until October 2010.

The self-named "tiny" airline flies from Manchester, East Midlands, Cardiff and Birmingham to a slew of destinations - domestic cities such as Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow as well as city-break faves such as Paris and Amsterdam and beach...

Book by Thursday, October 15, to secure cheap flights to North America with Swiss International Air Lines. The airline is offering flights from four airports in the UK (London Heathrow and City, Birmingham and Manchester) to key cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Montreal.

Return flights to New York start from £380 return including taxes.

Czech Airlines' weekend deal is back with a fresh new email but the same, decent, 25 per cent discount.

Book by Sunday, October 4, to save on flights from London Heathrow to Skopje, capital of Macedonia, from £184 and Barcelona from £163. Both fares are return and include taxes and charges. Use the promotional code 6H2F12 and travel between October 5 and January 1, 2010.

Book by midnight tonight (Friday, October 2). There are just hours left to snap up a £9.99 flight with Aer Lingus. The Irish airline is offering flights to Europe for just under a tenner, one-way including taxes and charges, for travel between November 5 and December 16.

From Gatwick Airport there are flights to Aer Lingus's new destinations, Bucharest in Romania, Eindhoven,...

Book by Thursday, October 1: Ryanair is giving winter sports fans the chance to fly their skis and snowboards to the Alps without incurring a charge.

Until midnight tomorrow, the airline will waive its £80 surcharge for anyone carrying the equipment on popular ski routes such as Grenoble, Lourdes and Salzburg.

Book by Wednesday, September 30: Flybe, Europe's largest regional carrier, has slashed fares on some of its most popular routes by up to 50 per cent.

The low-cost carrier is giving holidaymakers the chance to snap up savings on flights from its UK bases at London Gatwick, Manchester and Southampton airports.

Book by Tuesday, September 29: Lufthansa has flights to the Middle East from £249 return including taxes and fees.

The standout bargain is London-Dubai from £249, but the German airline also has the following cheap flights from London:

Beirut from £259 Amman from £299

Offer ends at midnight on Sunday, September 27: Aer Arann has an eye-catching "back to school" offer - 25 per cent off adult fares and 75 per cent off children's fares - for travel until Christmas including the October half-term school holidays.

The discounted fares are available on all seats, all flights and all routes. The Irish regional airline flies from several airports around...

Air Baltic, the Latvian national airline, is marking its 14th birthday with a sale. Book before Monday, September 28, to land a cheap flight to Eastern Europe.

The cities of Riga, capital of Latvia, and Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, are included in this sale. Depart from London Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Travel between October 19 and December 16.

Malaysia Airlines' sale ends next Wednesday (September 30). The airline is offering flights to popular destinations such as Kuala Lumpur, Phuket, Perth and Sydney from £659 return including taxes. Travel to December 11. Here's the line-up of bargains:

London Heathrow to Denpasar, the capital city of Bali, Indonesia, from £659 London Heathrow to Phuket, Thailand's largest...

Book by midnight tonight (Monday, September 21): Iceland Express (icelandexpress.com) has a lightning-fast sale on flights to Iceland. The quirky low-cost airline is offering flights from £55 one-way including taxes and fees.

The airline flies to Iceland daily from London Gatwick and will fly twice a week from London Stansted starting on November 2....

Book by midnight on Sunday, September 20: Brussels Airlines has 10,000 cheap seats to three popular Portuguese destinations up for grabs. This sale is for travellers outside London. The departure airports are Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester.

The destinations in Portugal are Faro, gateway to the sunny Algarve, Lisbon, the charming hilly capital, and Porto, the beautiful...

Offer ends on Tuesday, September 22: Aer Lingus is offering free carriage of golf clubs on a host of routes from London Gatwick and Heathrow airports. What's more, flights to several popular destinations are going for a snippy £9.99 one-way including taxes.

The routes covered by this offer are, from Gatwick:

Eindhoven from £9.99 Knock-Ireland West from £9.99 Munich from...

Book by Wednesday, September 30, to snap up one of the bargain flights with Air France. The airline has a decent sale, packed full of bargains across its route network - from Paris to the Seychelles.

Note: flights to the US and Canada have a book-by date of Wednesday, September 22, flights for all other destinations should be booked by Wednesday, September 30.

Starting with...

Book by Sunday, September 20: Lufthansa has unveiled an eye-catching two-for-the-price-of-one offer. You and a companion can fly to Germany and other destinations in Europe from £149 (Economy Class, return, including taxes, fees and charges) on nonstop flights or connecting routes from £239 (Economy, return, with taxes, fees and charges). The £149 fares are available on the following...

Book return flights to Copenhagen this autumn with SAS Scandinavian Airlines and receive a free 24-hour Copenhagen City Card worth £27. 

Europe's most punctual major airline is offering flights from several airports around the UK to Copenhagen from £65 one-way including taxes and charges.

Book by Sunday, September 13: Czech Airlines (www.czechairlines.com) is swiping 25 per cent off the cost of flights this weekend to four exciting destinations.

As ever, the destinations are split between London Heathrow and Manchester airports.

Heathrow departures are Rome from £128 return including taxes and Vilnius, Lithuania, from £119 return with taxes. The travel...

Book by Wednesday, September 16, to secure a bargain flight to Melbourne, Perth or Sydney with Cathay Pacific.

These deals are for those who can book far in advance. The travel window is May 1 to June 10, 2010.

Fly from London Heathrow to Perth from £579, Melbourne from £589 or Sydney from £599.

Book by Sunday, September 27: We're seeing lots of great deals in the front of the plane as airlines vie to attract Business-Class travellers. The latest is Swiss International Air Lines, which is offering flights to Europe from £258 return including taxes.

The destinations included in this sale are centred around the "business" capitals of Europe - Dusseldorf (from...

Book by Wednesday, September 30, to snap up one of BMI's sale fares.

The airline is offering bargain flights in all classes - Economy, Premium Economy and Business - on several domestic UK routes, and to Europe, the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Africa and Asia.

Some of the standout short-haul Economy deals are Dublin from £38, Amsterdam from £40 and Palma and Venice from...

Book by midnight tomorrow (Tuesday, September 8) to bag a bargain with Monarch Airlines.

The airline that flies to the most popular holiday destinations is offering at least £10 off the cost of flights - 1.3 million flights in total - for travel until March 2010.

To find the cheap flights, select your departure airport, destination and dates as usual. The results page will...

Book before September 22: Air Canada's Super Fall Sale is in full swing with flights to the US and Canada from London Heathrow from £295.

There are several travel periods - September 8 to October 31, November 1 to December 14, January 7 to March 24, 2010, and April 11 to June 23.