Coverage
The routes we know cold.
Telling you a fare is cheap means comparing it with what that exact route normally costs. We can only do that where we’ve tracked enough of it. These are those routes — and below, an honest account of what that does and doesn’t include.
100
routes tracked closely
12
UK airports
27
live deals right now
Two different things, and we don’t blur them
We watch thousands of UK routes for deals. When one turns up we search it live to check the fare is real before it reaches the board, so the price on a card is a price we actually found.
We judge the 100routes below. Judging is the harder claim: it needs months of that route’s own history, split by whether the flight is direct, how far ahead you’re booking and what time of year you’re flying. Without that we won’t pretend to know what’s normal.
Everywhere else, we say so. A route we haven’t tracked enough of shows “still learning” rather than a number we can’t stand behind.
What “tracked closely” means
For each of these routes we hold prices across the whole bookable year, refreshed every few days, for trips of up to two weeks. We keep them per departure date rather than as one route-wide average, which is why we can tell you that a Tuesday in mid-October is cheap and the 22nd of December is not.
Being precise about the edges: we hold most departure dates in that year rather than every single one, we price trips up to fourteen nights, and dates further out are refreshed less often than the coming month. Longer trips and the gaps are what we’re working on next.
What that actually gets you
Five things the tracking makes possible, and the numbers they’re based on.
Same price, opposite verdicts
£430 to Dubai from Manchester is a good price if it’s non-stop and a poor one if it isn’t. Non-stop on that route typically runs £553; with a connection, £205. Most price sites pool the two and call it “typical”. We never mix them — a one-stop is judged against other one-stops.
Across our routes the two differ by 67% at the median.
We search it before we show you
A cached price is where a fare was. We re-search every deal live before it reaches the board, and nearly half the time the real price comes back more than 15% above what the cache said. Those are the bargains you’d have clicked and lost.
One London–New York quote read £319. Live, it was £489.
Your dates, not just the route
A cheapest-dates calendar tells you which days are cheap. It can’t tell you whether the days you actually want are dear. We hold prices per departure date and per trip length, so a long weekend is never judged against a fortnight.
One night in Madrid over 22 December costs 70% more than the same trip either side of it.
Cheap because it’s horrible
The cheapest fare is often a punishing routing. We measure a journey against how long that route normally takes and drop anything far slower, so a day and a half in transit never reaches you dressed as a saving.
Manchester to Toronto isn’t a bargain at 38 hours when it flies in eight.
We tell you when we don’t know
Where we haven’t tracked a route enough to be sure, we’ll say “still learning” rather than put a confident number on a guess. Nobody ever lost money on a verdict we didn’t give.
It’s why this page exists.
Figures measured across the routes above in September 2026. Prices move; the comparisons are the point rather than the exact pounds.
The 100 routes
Departing 12UK airports. This list is read straight from what the trackers actually run on, so it can’t drift out of date.
London HeathrowLHR · 26 routes
- DubaiUnited Arab Emirates
- New YorkUnited States
- Los AngelesUnited States
- BostonUnited States
- MiamiUnited States
- San FranciscoUnited States
- TorontoCanada
- VancouverCanada
- Hong KongHong Kong
- DelhiIndia
- MumbaiIndia
- JohannesburgSouth Africa
- Cape TownSouth Africa
- NairobiKenya
- DohaQatar
- Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates
- AmsterdamNetherlands
- RomeItaly
- SingaporeSingapore
- BangkokThailand
- BarcelonaSpain
- MadridSpain
- ParisFrance
- LisbonPortugal
- ColomboSri Lanka
- IstanbulTurkey
London GatwickLGW · 15 routes
- New YorkUnited States
- OrlandoUnited States
- DubaiUnited Arab Emirates
- TenerifeSpain
- Gran CanariaSpain
- LanzaroteSpain
- CancúnMexico
- BridgetownBarbados
- BarcelonaSpain
- MálagaSpain
- AlicanteSpain
- PalmaSpain
- FaroPortugal
- VeniceItaly
- BangkokThailand
London StanstedSTN · 2 routes
- KrakówPoland
- DublinIreland
London LutonLTN · 2 routes
- BarcelonaSpain
- MadridSpain
ManchesterMAN · 21 routes
- DubaiUnited Arab Emirates
- New YorkUnited States
- OrlandoUnited States
- TorontoCanada
- DohaQatar
- MálagaSpain
- FaroPortugal
- TenerifeSpain
- LanzaroteSpain
- BangkokThailand
- BarcelonaSpain
- AmsterdamNetherlands
- AlicanteSpain
- PalmaSpain
- DublinIreland
- CancúnMexico
- AtlantaUnited States
- Las VegasUnited States
- SingaporeSingapore
- Hong KongHong Kong
- DelhiIndia
EdinburghEDI · 9 routes
- DubaiUnited Arab Emirates
- AmsterdamNetherlands
- New YorkUnited States
- ChicagoUnited States
- DohaQatar
- TorontoCanada
- BarcelonaSpain
- MadridSpain
- BilbaoSpain
GlasgowGLA · 4 routes
- DubaiUnited Arab Emirates
- TorontoCanada
- BarcelonaSpain
- ParisFrance
BirminghamBHX · 7 routes
- DubaiUnited Arab Emirates
- DublinIreland
- DohaQatar
- BarcelonaSpain
- MadridSpain
- ParisFrance
- AmsterdamNetherlands
BristolBRS · 4 routes
- BarcelonaSpain
- MadridSpain
- BilbaoSpain
- ParisFrance
NewcastleNCL · 3 routes
- DubaiUnited Arab Emirates
- BarcelonaSpain
- ParisFrance
LiverpoolLPL · 4 routes
- BarcelonaSpain
- MadridSpain
- ParisFrance
- AmsterdamNetherlands
Leeds BradfordLBA · 3 routes
- BarcelonaSpain
- ParisFrance
- AmsterdamNetherlands
Not seeing your route?
We add routes as the tracking deepens, and the next expansion takes this to several hundred across every major UK airport. In the meantime the deals board watches far more than this list, and we’ll tell you what’s cheap wherever we honestly can.