Budget-Flights

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Cheap Flights from London to Reykjavik: What Nobody Tells You I booked the wrong month on purpose. Everyone said go in summer, chase the midnight sun, do the Golden Circle in a T-shirt. Instead I flew in January on a £55 Play ticket, landed at Keflavík in the dark, stepped off the Flybus into a city lit up like a film set, and soaked in a geothermal pool under a sky that turned green and then white and then green again. The Northern Lights are not guaranteed — every guide says that — but nobody mentioned that a cheap January fare is half the reason they’re worth chasing. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Cheap Flights from London to Tbilisi, Starting Around £90 My colleague booked the flight to Georgia first and told me the price second. I didn’t believe him — a return to Tbilisi for under £200 with a short layover in Istanbul, flying midweek in November. I checked myself, found roughly the same on Wizz Air out of Luton, and added it to the basket without much deliberation. The cheap flights from London to Tbilisi are genuinely out there, but the route works differently from the short-haul bargain you’re used to: there’s no direct service, the stop is unavoidable, and picking the right connection separates a smooth five-and-a-half-hour journey from a five-hour sit at the gate. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Cheap Flights from London to Tenerife, Starting at £49 I almost rebooked for somewhere closer. October, a grey Tuesday at Gatwick, and I was quietly wondering whether four and a half hours was too far for a long weekend. Then I checked the Tenerife forecast — 24°C, clear skies, Mount Teide catching the late afternoon light — and the return fare was £98. I stopped wondering. ...

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Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Cheap Flights from Los Angeles to Tokyo, Starting at $399 I booked the wrong week — or so I thought. It was a damp February, I had a few days off work and almost zero interest in sitting at home in LA watching the rain. I searched LAX to Tokyo on a whim, saw $399 on Zipair, and hit purchase before I could talk myself out of it. My colleague booked the same route two months later for cherry-blossom season and paid $980. We both ended up in the same Shibuya ramen shop, slurping from identical bowls of tonkotsu, but only one of us had spent $581 more to get there. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Cheap Flights from Madrid to Marrakech, Starting at €25 I booked the ticket on a Wednesday evening in October, mostly on a whim: €27 one-way on Air Arabia Maroc, Madrid to Marrakech, departing at a reasonable hour. My first thought was that something had to be wrong. My second thought was that I should stop overthinking and pack. Two hours after landing at Menara I was sitting in a riad courtyard in the medina, sipping mint tea so sweet it made me blink, and mentally replaying how little the whole thing had cost. That is the open secret of cheap flights from Madrid to Marrakech — Africa is closer than most Madrileños realise, and the airlines have priced it accordingly. ...

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Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Cheap Flights from Paris to Barcelona, Starting at €19 I’d booked the train. Had my TGV ticket for €89, a good seat, and a vague plan to watch the Pyrenees roll past the window. Then a colleague mentioned she’d just flown for €19. I checked, found a Vueling seat for €23 the following week, and cancelled the train without a second thought. That’s the dynamic on cheap flights from Paris to Barcelona: there are so many airlines fighting over this route that the price can drop lower than a decent meal. And the flight is just 1 hour 45 minutes. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Cheap Flights from Paris to Marrakech, Starting at €29 My friend Marion called it “the shortest escape from grey.” She’d booked a €34 Transavia one-way from Orly on a Tuesday in October and was sitting in Jemaa el-Fnaa square, hands wrapped around a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice, less than five hours after leaving her apartment in the 11th. That’s the thing about cheap flights from Paris to Marrakech: the journey is quick, the price gap between booking blind and booking smart is enormous, and the destination rewards you every single time. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Cheap Flights from Paris to Porto — and Why Everyone’s Going I nearly talked myself out of booking it. The fare was €27 on a Tuesday in February — so cheap I assumed I’d misread it or there was a catch hiding in the fine print. There wasn’t. I was sitting on the Ribeira riverfront eating a pastel de nata and watching the Dom Luís I bridge glow in the afternoon light less than three hours after leaving Paris. Cheap flights from Paris to Porto are that simple, and that good. ...