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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 London to Dublin, Starting at £13 I almost didn’t board. Standing at Stansted with a £13 ticket and a backpack, I’d convinced myself a fare that cheap had to have a catch — a hidden bag fee, a 4am departure, a bus to an airport in another county. There wasn’t one. I landed in Dublin 80 minutes later having paid less than my taxi to the airport had cost. That’s the open secret of cheap flights from London to Dublin: this is one of the most over-served routes in Europe, and the airlines are practically giving seats away to fill the planes. ...

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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 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. ...

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 Tirana: Albania’s Open Secret I booked it almost on a dare. A friend had sent a screenshot of a Wizz Air fare — London to Tirana, mid-November, around £42 each way — with the message: “Albania. Go or no?” I went. And standing in Skanderbeg Square two months later, looking up at the Dajti mountain framed against a winter-blue sky and paying 200 lek (about £1.50) for a coffee in the Blloku district, I couldn’t quite believe this was still Europe’s best-kept travel secret. ...

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 Bangkok, Starting at £370 Return I almost booked the wrong ticket. There it was, glowing on my screen one drizzly September afternoon: a Xiamen Air return for £370, the cheapest London to Bangkok fare I’d ever seen. My thumb was over the button. Then I noticed the bag allowance and the layover, did the maths, and quietly closed the tab. I’ll tell you what I booked instead in a minute, because it taught me everything about this route. ...

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 Rome, Starting at £21 Gate 41, Stansted, last November, a 6:40am I’d booked three weeks earlier for a friend’s 40th in Rome. I’d paid £24 for the seat and was quietly smug about it — right up until the boarding agent eyed my cabin bag and asked if I’d paid for it. I hadn’t. That’s the open secret of cheap flights from London to Rome: the fare on the screen is rarely the fare you pay, and the gap is where most people lose their savings. Stick with me and you won’t. ...

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 New York to London, Starting at $199 Last January my wife and I were carving into a Sunday roast at a Soho cafe, gravy and a pot of tea, the same day we’d woken up in New York. The flight had cost me $199. She’d booked her seat a week after me and paid $370 for the identical Norse Atlantic Dreamliner — and I’ll tell you exactly where that extra $171 went, because it’s the mistake almost everyone makes on this route. ...