Ryanair's 1p flights sale

Are they really 1p?

Ryanair's touting these flights as free yet they're actually 1p each way due to the booking system. This is reclaimable, but it's likely to cost you more than 1p to do it, so don't bother. In fact, unfortunately most people will pay more as Ryanair is a cheap-as-chips budget airline, so sadly its pricing structure leaves a lot to be desired as it considers taking stowed baggage and using airport check-in as ‘extras’.

Yet if you only take hand-luggage, check in online and pay via Visa Electron, the flights really can be had for a penny each way. For everyone else, expect to pay more, though it's still easily possible to get to Europe and back for around £30 all-in.

Ryanair’s ‘extra’ charges

• Taking checked-in baggage.

  Pre-book your baggage and it’s £8 for the first suitcase, and £16 per item thereafter; otherwise all baggage is £16 a piece. Baggage over 15Kg is charged as excess (the maximum weight of free hand luggage is 10 Kg).

• If you don’t check-in online.

  If you need to check-in at the airport you’ll pay £4 per person each way. This charge is unavoidable for anyone taking baggage. If you’re only taking hand luggage, check-in online, between 48 and four hours beforehand and it's free.

• For paying!
  
  Ryanair charges £4 per person per flight for debit card transactions and £4 if paying with a credit card. Rather disingenuously it can still claim this is an ‘extra’, as if you pay by the less common ‘Visa Electron’ card it is free.
  

Speedily find the cheap flights

This is simple to do as it's exactly what the FlightChecker tool is designed for. Simply tell it where you want to go, what your date range is and the maximum you're willing to pay and it'll find every available flight for you. So to find these flights, do the following:

• Step 1: Go to the Budget Airline FlightChecker
  
  
• Step 2: Enter your departure airport.
  
  
• Step 3: Enter where you want to go. Either check that this destination is included in the promotion (see below) or just click 'I'll go anywhere' to find all routes.



• Step 4: Select travel dates as appropriate.



• Step 5: Choose maximum price £1 inc. taxes and charges. This ensures only the special flights will appear.



• Step 6: Book at Ryanair. Once you've found your flights, go straight to Ryanair to check they're still available and book them. These flights disappear at speed, so don't delay.



• Step 7: Check out cheap hotels or B&Bs. If you need somewhere to stay the Cheap Hotels & Hostels article will show you how to find it cheapest.

When and where are the flights?

Ryanair is clever with its promotions. As the flights aren’t for all dates; the liklihood is, for anyone without huge flexibility, you may find a 1p flight for one leg of your journey but pay more for the other leg. However using the FlightChecker you should still be able to do it cheaply.

Blackpool, Bristol, Doncaster Sheffield, Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford, & Newcastle departures:

• Book before midnight Thurs 19 June.



• Journeys must take place between 17 July & 31 Aug '08: For flights between 12pm Mon & 12pm Thurs during 1 and 17 July. Between 18 July and 31 Aug, only Tues & Weds flights. All school breaks and major sporting event periods are excluded too.



• Destinations include: Bournemouth, Budapest T1, Dinard, Dublin, Katowice, Milan (Orio al Serio), Riga, Rzeszow, Shannon, and Wroclaw.
  
  

Bournemouth, East Midlands, Liverpool & Glasgow Prestwick departures:

• Book before midnight Thurs 19 June. Flights must be at least 14 days ahead.



• Journeys must take place between 28 June '08 & 31 Jan '09: Applicable for Mon-Thurs flights, except during 17 Oct to 3 Nov (UK flights), 24 Oct to 3 Nov (Ireland journeys) and 18 Dec to 7 Jan. All school breaks and major sporting event periods are excluded too.



• Destinations include: Belfast (City), Cork, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt (Hahn), Glasgow Prestwick, Inverness, Limoges, Marseille Provence MP2, Nantes (Brittany), Rimini and Wroclaw.
  
  

Inverness & London Stansted departures:

• Book before midnight Thurs 19 June.



• Journeys must take place between 01 Oct '08 & 31 Jan '09: For 12pm Mon to 12pm Thurs flights, excluding 17 to 23 Oct (just UK flights), 24 Oct to 03 Nov and 18 Dec to 7 Jan. All school breaks and major sporting event periods are excluded too.



• Destinations include: Aarhus, Altenburg (Leipzig), Belfast (City), Bologna (Fiorli), Carcassone, Dinard, East Midlands, Eindhoven, Frankfurt (Hahn), Genoa, Hamburg (Lubeck), Rodez, Santander and Shannon.
  
  

London Luton & Manchester departures:

• Book before midnight Thurs 19 June..



• Journeys must take place between 27 Oct & 25 Dec '08: Applicable for Mon-Thurs flights, excl. flights between 27 Oct & 3 Nov plus 18 & 25 Dec. All school breaks and major sporting event periods are excluded too.



• Destinations include: Bremen, Brest Brittany, Dublin, Frankfurt (Hahn), Kerry, Knock-Ireland West, Marseille Provence MP2, Milan ( Orio al Serio), Nimes and Shannon.
  
  
  

London Gatwick & Newquay departures:

• Book before midnight Thurs 19 June. Flights must be at least 14 days ahead.



• Journeys must take place between 1 July & 31 Aug '08: For Tues & Weds flights.



• Destinations include: Dublin, London Stansted and Shannon.
  
  

Birmingham departures:

• Book before midnight Thurs 19 June.



• Journeys must take place between 27 Oct & 25 Dec '08: Applicable for Mon-Thurs & Sat flights, excl. journeys between 27 Oct & 3 Nov. All school breaks and major sporting event periods are excluded too.



• Destinations include: Billund, Bratislava (Vienna), Dinard, Gdansk, Oslo (Torp), Poitiers, Rzeszow, Shannon and Stockholm (Skavsta).
  
  
  

Read the full Ryanair Cheap Flights promotion details for your departure airport.

Want other cheap flights?

If you're looking for other flights not included in this promotion, or further afield, read the main Cheap Flights article, which will show you how to get the cheapest flights anywhere in the world. And if you do nab a cheap flight, why not help the environment by Carbon Offsetting.

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