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warmachinenkorea
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 6:59 pm Post subject: Best flights to the UK? |
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| We have a friend that left Korea nd moved back to Scotland. He wants us to come visit. I've been looking a tickets and they are expensive. Like $1900 a person. Anyone have experience with cheaper airlines from Korea? |
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
Location: korea
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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what dates will you be looking to visit from? Will it be from incheon to glasgow / edinburgh?
I will have a look on some sites and tell you what i've found.
i'm guessing it's a return flight too? |
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b-class rambler
Joined: 25 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 9:12 pm Post subject: Re: Best flights to the UK? |
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| warmachinenkorea wrote: |
| We have a friend that left Korea nd moved back to Scotland. He wants us to come visit. I've been looking a tickets and they are expensive. Like $1900 a person. Anyone have experience with cheaper airlines from Korea? |
I'd say there's no way you should have to pay anything like that to get to the UK unless you're completely inflexible with times and dates.
If you were flying to London, then there are usually lots of options via other Asian cities. Cathay Pacific via HKG tend to be reasonable if you pick the right flights. They'll have several flights a day for both legs of the journey and the fare will vary a lot depending on the particular combination of flights you pick. You really need to check of the airline's website rather than somewhere like expedia. My in-laws flew to London with Cathay a couple of months ago for under W1million and that was without us being able to be very flexible with timings.
I'd also suggest looking at both Qatar Airways and Emirates. I think Emirates actually fly to Glasgow too.
Something else to consider would be getting a cheaper flight to another European city, like Paris or Frankfurt, and then using one of the UK's budget airlines, like easyjet or bmi, for the trip to Scotland. |
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ed1980
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Goyang
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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Hi - I am also looking for UK flights if anyone can help ?
We want to fly to the UK on Sat Aug 28th (or late friday night) and return to Incheon Mon 5th Sep (before noonish) . . .we can be slightly felxible if the price is right ...
the best i have found is 1 400 000 won with dates/times that arent great
anyone know of an agent / airliner that may be particularly useful ????
cheers |
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b-class rambler
Joined: 25 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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| ed1980 wrote: |
Hi - I am also looking for UK flights if anyone can help ?
We want to fly to the UK on Sat Aug 28th (or late friday night) and return to Incheon Mon 5th Sep (before noonish) . . .we can be slightly felxible if the price is right ...
the best i have found is 1 400 000 won with dates/times that arent great
anyone know of an agent / airliner that may be particularly useful ????
cheers |
I mentioned Qatar Airways & Emirates above. Both of them fly to Gatwick as well as Heathrow, and when I have searched in the past Gatwick was about W150,000 cheaper. Both these airlines would give you the Friday night departure option as Emirates flight leaves ICN at 11.55pm and Qatar's is something like 1am.
Emirates also flies to Birmingham and Manchester BTW. Other than that, try Cathay Pacific's site. I reckon they'll have flights for closer to 1 million around those dates. |
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ed1980
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Goyang
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Cheers for your help - ive tried those 3 but no joy as of yet getting it down in price |
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Sausolito
Joined: 28 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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When I came out 7 months ago I flew KLM from Edinburgh to Amsterdam then onto Seoul. 4 hours in Amsterdam. It cost around �500 or like 1m won return (can't be bothered checking exchange rates.)
My friends just visited from Scotland and paid roughly the same flying Emirates to Dubai then onto Seoul and to Dubai and onto Glasgow on the return.
I've checked every now and again and flights have never been that expensive, even on Expedia. |
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
Location: korea
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| ed1980 wrote: |
Hi - I am also looking for UK flights if anyone can help ?
We want to fly to the UK on Sat Aug 28th (or late friday night) and return to Incheon Mon 5th Sep (before noonish) . . .we can be slightly felxible if the price is right ...
the best i have found is 1 400 000 won with dates/times that arent great
anyone know of an agent / airliner that may be particularly useful ????
cheers |
expedia.com (the u.s site) has flights leaving seoul at 8:55 sat morn arrive in heathrow at 6:50pm that same day and coming back would be the sticking point because if you have to make work on the monday you are going to have to fly on the saturday night at 9:20pm which would get you into incheon at 8:30pm sunday night
The total cost for this flight is $972 which is about 1,150,000 won or so.
If you could get the monday off work (which is why I assume you need to be back before noon) then you could take the exact same flight back on the sunday night getting you in at 8:30pm on monday. It would be the same price again.
All these flights are with China Eastern air and have 2 1/2 hour stopovers in shanghai both ways. |
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Capo
Joined: 09 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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flying from the uk korean airlines are cheap as chips. Flying from Korea use sites like 072.com to find out where the cheap deals are somes times they are the same as the airline website, some times alot less and sometimes slightly more, but definitely worth a look.
I booked my flight to london 1 week return during the last week of june cathay paciphic were offering the flight for 3mil on their website but on 072.com I paid about 1.1mil. I was scoping out flights for SE Asia this summer this summer and 072.com couldn't beat cathay paciphic so it all depends. |
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Ralphie
Joined: 24 Mar 2010
Location: Beijing, PRC
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I bought an Incheon-London return ticket (for travel in July) from Sue Yi at Xanadu Travel in Itaewan back in February. I paid 790,800 Won. The airline is Aeroflot from Russia, so I'll have to transfer in Moscow in order to get to London. If your friend doesn't mind basic service and (maybe) non-existing extra amenities, such as personal entertainment system, then Aeroflot might be a cheaper alternative. |
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kiwigirl :O)
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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try with turkish airlines...
they have recently (within about 8-9 months) set up new korean-european routes....
I got a very cheap ticket to manchester (including an istanbul transit) a while back... |
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ed1980
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Goyang
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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thanks for all your help everyone
i have got it down to 1.2m from aeroflot via ebookers
i have had a quick look at 072.com - anyone suggest a quick guide on how to search on the site - i can slowly read hangul - but not sure how to search on the site
cheers |
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kohmelo
Joined: 26 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| Ralphie wrote: |
| I bought an Incheon-London return ticket (for travel in July) from Sue Yi at Xanadu Travel in Itaewan back in February. I paid 790,800 Won. The airline is Aeroflot from Russia, so I'll have to transfer in Moscow in order to get to London. If your friend doesn't mind basic service and (maybe) non-existing extra amenities, such as personal entertainment system, then Aeroflot might be a cheaper alternative. |
 He he he, Good luck to you at Moscow-Sheremetyevo..
I've flown 2 return trips with Aeroflot to Seoul-Incheon, and I felt they gave better service than British Airways did. Though the second time I flew with Korean Air to Moscow on a codeshare flight so that was much better, that too didn't have any PTV.
Korean Air and Asiana are way too expensive! |
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