Flights - If you wish to book yourself

The change over days for the houses are generally Wednesday.

Flights are on Wednesday and Saturday but at Glasgow airport flights generally leave on a Wednesday.

Thomas Cook are good for one way flights and for three, four, five week etc return flights. Sometimes, if you phone Thomas Cook they may have a flight that shows as not available on line, available over the phone, or they may have it cheaper (ask the operator to check the JMC system, as well as Thomas Cook online).

Saturday from Glasgow

These were available this year during April, October, November - With Thomas Cook. Watch their website for details. Saturday flights will open up soon.

The best deals are found online direct with the airlines: 

www.flythomascook.com                       tel – 08707 520918

www.MyTravel.com                                tel – 0870 241 5333

Book early if you can.

Globespan fly to Lanzarote. You can fly to Lanzarote and then take the ferry to Fuerteventura - talk to me about this.

www.flyglobespan.com                                   tel – 08705 561522

www.cheapflights.co.uk

www.xl.com                          (good for Manchester)

www.skydeals.co.uk

www.travelrepulic.co.uk

www.flightline.co.uk

www.flightsbyphone.co.uk

www.cheapestflights.co.uk

www.holidaysonline.ie        (Dublin, Cork, Shannon)

www.airflights.co.uk

Ryanair - low cost (www.ryanair.com). Now flying from Dublin and Liverpool. 

Flights – in an emergency and you need to get back to the UK quick.

Obviously, you have your own insurance company and flight company. The experts on the island for low cost ‘stand-by’ and ‘last second’ flights are The Foreign Office.

Telephone 0034 928 175023

Telephone 0034 902 123233

They are well know on the island and used by all those who live and work on the island. They generally cater for one-way flights off the island back to the UK. Their shop is on the opposite side of the road from the airport. Turn right when you go out of the airport by car and look across the road – just past the road bridge you will go under – you will see a shop front marked ‘Foreign Office’.