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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. ...

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 Faro: The Algarve Gateway I nearly booked Lisbon by mistake. I’d been staring at flight calendars for twenty minutes when I spotted it — Faro, £23 in late October, with the golden cliffs of Ponta da Piedade already playing in my mind. A friend had told me the Algarve in autumn is a completely different country to the August version: the same warm light, the same terracotta rock stacks rising out of the Atlantic, but without the queues and the noise. The Ria Formosa lagoon practically to yourself. A table at a seafood restaurant without a reservation. All of it hinging on one cheap flight from London to Faro. ...

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 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. ...