Holidaymakers can save up to 21 percent if they choose to fly on Friday the 13th instead of every other Friday of the year.
Flight comparison website Kayak has discovered that those who have booked a flight to a European destination, London airports on Friday the 13th in September could have saved 21 percent, equating to a saving of £99 compared to the average price of return economy class flights on other, perhaps slightly luckier Fridays in 2024.
While some superstitious Brits will absolutely rule out flying on one of the unluckiest days of the year, those who dare to book and board a flight on Friday the 13th could be in a position to save some of their holiday budget.
Those who had taken a cheaper flight would have gone to Paris, Prague And Krakowwith return journeys from London costing less than £100, the travel search engine said.
Tourists who booked a trip on September 12 could pay for a return flight from Stansted to Nantes in 2019. France At just £57 a return ticket from Luton to Edinburgh would have cost just £88 and return flights from London Southend to Paris cost just £98.
For those who book And Even if you fly on Friday the 13th, there are still dozens of European hotspots offering cheaper flights on this superstitious day.
The cheapest return flights include a Austrian City breakers spent just £187 on a flight from London to Salzburg airports, according to Kayak’s database (13 September).
A flight to Nantes on Friday the 13th would still cost you very little, around £113, or passengers could spend just £148 to fly to Oviedo in Spain.
For those who missed out on the low prices this time around, there’s another Friday the 13th coming up in 2024. That’s bad news for data-phobics, but great news for flight-savvy travelers.
Cheap flights currently showing, from September 13th, for those travelling on the next Friday the 13th in December, can get a deal on flights to Edinburgh for about £35.
If a winter break a little further afield than Scotland is more appealing, flights to Milan, Italyon December 13, are selling for just £42, while a Spanish getaway to Barcelona costs just £46.
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