Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

Does anyone know if Turkish Airlines have a sale in January - I'm told they do, but would just like to check. any advice welcome

From their Website
http://www.turkishairlines.com/en-int/c ... -in-turkey

Just booked up for 10 days at end of Jan £115 return each

Where are you flying from? can't find any from Manchester Its still £221.
Brend

Manchester is always dearer than any other U K airport. I looked at Monarch to Larnaca £30 going £220 to get back to Manchester.

sorry Brend, am I confusing people? I'm flying from Ercan to Manchester in February. When I checked a couple of weeks ago it was £207, now its £219 - I' ve been told that if I leave it until the middle of January it will be cheaper - but I'm not sure if that's the case, is it just going to get more expensive?

Looking at Turkish airline it doubles in price middle of February I am guessing that is half term. Which airline did you get £30 going from Manchester to Larnaca Woodspeckie?
Brend

It was Monarch sale don't know when it ended though. There was a post on here to link to the website last week.

Monarch Manchester to Larnaca? Hate to ask, but Monarch's last flight on that route was 20 May 2015 - we took that route just a few days earlier; later in the year we had to use Thomas Cook. Monarch are now using Leeds/Bradford, Birmingham, Luton and Gatwick.... For Manchester, it's Jet2, Thomas Cook, Thomson.

Sorry my mistake the flight was to Dalaman in Turkey.

The £115 price i got was Ercan - Gatwick 30th Jan for 10 days (15hrs outbound- 7 hrs return) with Lastminute.com as of 0900 5/1/16 it is still the same price

We have just booked 7 nights B+B at Rose Gdns with transfers for 5 th March, Turkish airlines from Gatwick for £220.00 each !!

Gatwick to Larnaca with EasyJet, without hold luggage, without food or drinks, booked Jan 8th using lastminute.com, Travel date Jan 12th, £67.99

Flight was on-time, cabin crew friendly and efficient, not a lot of room, so wouldn't suit anyone much over 100Kg...

Just spotted:

Gatwick to Larnaca 23rd,26th, & 30th Jan £39.90

Larnaca to Gatwick 2nd, 6th, 9th, 13th, 16th, 23rd, & 27th Feb £34.10 - all with Norwegian

10Kg cabin baggage plus handbag, flight time around 4 hours 50 mins.

I've not looked at the detail, but it may be of interest to some...

"Are you planning on a summer getaway this year? Easy Jet Holidays are offering customers £45 OFF ALL SUMMER HOLIDAYS with code HOLIDAY45, hurry though, this deal ends Tuesday 19th January! "

Keithcaley. Apart from the air fares quoted (which, incidentally, are very reasonable) what are the other costs involved within Cyprus? Taxi fares (return journey) or fuel, insurance, parking costs at LCA? I do not ask to demean but to make comparisons based on ECN-UK travel costs/convenience.

tomsteel wrote:Keithcaley. Apart from the air fares quoted (which, incidentally, are very reasonable) what are the other costs involved within Cyprus? Taxi fares (return journey) or fuel, insurance, parking costs at LCA? I do not ask to demean but to make comparisons based on ECN-UK travel costs/convenience.

Hi, You raise some very good points - I suppose it depends partly on how far you live from the airport, and whether you've got a pal 'on tap' to pick you up!

I recently travelled to the UK and back.

Outbound, I used Turkish Airlines, ECN > LGW, getting a 'free' (to me!) lift at this end, and a National Express coach at the UK end cost: Flight £130, coach £23. Time to ECN from Alsancak about 1 hour.

For the return, LGW > LCA, I used coach (£20) and Easyjet (£67.99) with, once more, a 'free' lift at this end. Time from LCA to Alsancak about 1 hour 35 mins.

For those paying Taxi fares, they would, of course, need to consider the difference in the cost of fares to and from ECN and LCA, and as you rightly point out, there's always mileage, fuel, maintenance & extra insurance costs to take into account for those using private transport.

I did not, by posting these examples of flight costs, intend to suggest that they would be appropriate to everyone, or even that they would be the cheapest overall, I sought merely to provide the information so that people could look at their own situation, and figure in the various other factors for themselves.

As every individual's requirements will differ, it seems an impossible task to give a 'one size fits all' type of comparison...

Oh! - and I haven't used long term parking at either airport, although I think that ECN may be cheaper, and secure off-site parking (with shuttle service included) is available near LCA.

Thanks, very much appreciated for your frankness. Much to consider for all manner of traveller, able-bodied, partially disabled and disabled.

Just an idle thought - (the BIG) if......there ever is an agreement/settlement, I wonder whether the original Nicosia airport would be renovated/re-opened? For those (like me) from 'oop North' who want Girne and points west, there is little choice but direct to Larnaca and about 90 min LCA to destination - with anything from 30 to 150 min to the UK airport (L/pool, Man or Leeds).
To Ercan? Only with a change at Istanbul and high prices - and even then, the hour from Ercan to W. of Girne....
If only - direct flights from Northern England airports to Nicosia International.... (can always dream...)

If you are flying to Larnaca you can hire a car for about £80 for 2 week at this time of year. We did it last year and it worked out cheaper than a taxi.
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tomsteel wrote:...Much to consider for all manner of traveller, able-bodied, partially disabled and disabled.

I just realised that I had not mentioned the differences in flight duration...

ECN to London airports involves a mandatory stop in Turkey as you all know, which increases the ECN > UK journey time to a minimum of around 6 hours - and when a change of aeroplane or even airline, is involved this can be as much as 15 hours, as mentioned in another post.

LCA to London direct flight time is around the 5 hour mark with all the airlines that I've used - I have no personal experience of indirect routes, others may care to comment.

The other factor affecting total journey time is the wait for a coach or train connection, and the timings of the various changes, if any are required. I tend to use National Express coaches, and although they run fairly frequently (typically every 90 minutes or so, on the journeys that I make) this can start to 'add up' if the flight timings are such that you arrive 'just too late' to catch one coach, and have to wait for the next. This can be an issue with flights to LGW, if you need to transfer to Heathrow or Victoria Coach Station for a connection, particularly with the last BA flight to LGW which usually arrives 30 minutes after the last coach has left - involving an overnight wait for the next one!

So, there are a lot of things to consider, and you can spend a lot of time juggling flight times & connections and onwards journey times and connections, all the while comparing prices, and thinking about baggage allowances

For the faint hearted, there's always the lovely Libby at Esta Travel... (or one of the other Travel Agents of course).

Have fun!

...and as though that wasn't enough to think about, I just received an email with details of Norwegian Airlines Sale with 50,000 seats going for under £29.99...

Not strictly TRNC related, but hey! - why not take a holiday?

As I mentioned in my last post, it is worthwhile contacting one of the local Travel Agents, because they may well have access to deals that are not advertised to the general public, such as surplus seating on charter flights et al, and of course they have the experience to organise a trip involving multiple stops and changes of mode of transport, as well as catering for special requirements such as diets and physical assistance - I do realise that it can be a little daunting for an individual to face dealing with many different organisations when you aren't aware of all the 'ins and outs'.

Turkish Airlines from Edinburgh to Ercan on 21st April and back on 14th May ----- £216. Not a sale but prices going up by the week.