Find the cheapest day to fly your route. Shift by ±3 days and save up to 30% without changing destination.
Prices shown per direction per passenger. Cheapest outbound + return combo highlighted below.
Airline pricing engines treat Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons as peak demand — that’s when most people want to travel, so that’s when prices spike. Shift one leg of your trip by even a single day and you can often knock £40–£80 off a European return.
The patterns that hold across almost every short-haul European route:
Use this tool to check the full 7-day window around your target. If even one leg can shift by a day or two, the total saving is usually worth the flex.
Yes. All prices shown are the advertised fare including government taxes and airline surcharges. They don’t include optional extras like seat selection, checked bags or priority boarding.
Not necessarily. The calendar shows the cheapest fare on each day, which may be a different carrier to the other days. Click through to see exactly who’s flying.
Budget airlines often price each leg independently, so mixing two carriers (e.g. easyJet outbound, Ryanair return) can beat any single-carrier return fare. Our search defaults to showing the cheapest combination, regardless of airline.
±3 days captures the Tue/Wed savings without pushing too far from your target. ±7 gives maximum savings for genuinely open travellers but will often suggest awkward overnight gaps.
Yes, but savings are proportionally smaller. A flexible-date search on UK–USA typically saves 8–15% rather than 25–30%, because long-haul pricing is less demand-sensitive day-to-day.