{"id":10861,"date":"2026-04-24T09:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/10861\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:34:16","slug":"flight-prices-from-the-uk-to-spain-plummet-to-40-but-theres-a-big-catch-travel-news-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/10861\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight prices from the UK to Spain plummet to \u00a340 – but there’s a big catch | Travel News | Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those Brits looking to score a cheap holiday deal<\/a> this summer, they are in luck, as flight prices<\/a> from the UK to Europe<\/a> have fallen and tempting deals are still on offer. Average flight prices in the week ending April 13 were down from \u00a3141 to \u00a3132 compared to the same week last year – a drop of more than 6% – according to data from travel comparison site Kayak.<\/p>\n

Average flights to Alicante<\/a> in Spain over the same week fell to \u00a3103 from last year\u2019s average price of \u00a3125, while a typical flight to Malaga<\/a> was \u00a3110, down from \u00a3130 in 2025, the analysis shows.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, holidaymakers heading to Faro, Portugal, were spending on average \u00a3123, down from \u00a3135 in 2025, whereas flights to the Italian capital, Rome<\/a>, have fallen from \u00a3134 to \u00a3114. However, Brits are being warned that, despite such irresistible offers, these bargain seats are most at risk of cancellation amid the war in Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Examples of bargain summer flights<\/a> for holidaymakers include a \u00a341 one-way ticket from Gatwick to Menorca with easyJet on August 22, as well as a \u00a373 fare to Pula<\/a> in Croatia with the same carrier on August 20.<\/p>\n

However, experts have warned that these flights – with unsold seats and alternative services on similar dates – could be the first to be cancelled in the coming weeks if the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> closure is not rectified and the fuel crisis and supply chaos continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor some airlines beginning to look forward at the possibility of fuel shortages, those destinations with the highest frequency are likely to see some reductions in frequency service,” said John Grant, chief analyst at the aviation consultancy OAG, according to The i Paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile at the other end of the spectrum some carriers will elect to cease operating to some of those destinations where forward bookings are relatively light.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, airline bosses have warned that cancellations and significant price increases could come as early as next month if the Iran war continues. Ryanair<\/a> boss Michael O\u2019Leary has said his airline was \u201creasonably well hedged\u201d on 80% of its fuel, which was bought before the Gulf crisis, but he added that Ryanair<\/a> is paying almost double the cost \u2013 about \u00a3111 a barrel \u2013 on the remaining 20%, warning that disruptions to supplies in Europe in May and June would push up prices.<\/p>\n

Kenton Jarvis, easyJet<\/a> CEO, also said customers should expect higher ticket prices towards the end of summer, when existing fuel hedges expire.<\/p>\n

These warnings come as Airlines UK, the trade association for UK-registered airlines including British Airways<\/a>, has urged the Government to relax rules on the number of landing slots each airline must use in the event that a growing number of flights have to be cancelled. Under current rules, airlines must use 80% of their allocated slots in the preceding winter or summer season to retain the same slots in the following season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For those Brits looking to score a cheap holiday deal this summer, they are in luck, as flight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6711,6713,5506,4869,1772,950,5831,6715,31,6710,6712,6714,1997,6716,602,17,6709,6708,6717],"class_list":{"0":"post-10861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-airline-cancellations","9":"tag-airlines-uk","10":"tag-cancellations","11":"tag-easyjet","12":"tag-europe-section","13":"tag-flights","14":"tag-fuel-crisis","15":"tag-fuel-shortages","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-iran-war-impact","18":"tag-kenton-jarvis","19":"tag-landing-slots","20":"tag-michael-oleary","21":"tag-oag","22":"tag-ryanair","23":"tag-spain","24":"tag-spain-flight-prices","25":"tag-travel-deals","26":"tag-unsold-seats"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}