V-Flyer

You have to fiddle the dates around a bit to arrive at the direct flights, but I'm currently finding MAN-BOS for £1,000 in Upper and MAN-SFO at a slightly less amazing, but nonetheless very good price of £1,700.

Example dates:

Sat 12th - Sat 19th August for BOS
Fri 18th - Fri 25th August for SFO

Seems to be spread across the whole summer season.

MAN-JFK currently going for £1,400 as per the currently advertised sale!

Edit: Just to add to this - if you perform the search looking for fares in the I Class bucket, the price goes up by only £300. Consider that for this you qualify for the car transfer at both ends, but also fall into the flexible ticket classes for extra TPs (200 per sector, so 400 TP total). Not for miles though strangely, but it's still a very nice earner.

A nice find there. If only the clubhouse existed in Manchester, eh? Could knock one up in Gatwick in less than a year...

Interesting about the lower priced I class, taxi from my house to MAN might be over £130...

Indeed. Although there was space in LGW which there isn't in MAN. Think it's one to wait for until after the airport is redeveloped.

Thanks for posting this Slimpyjones.

£50 cheaper on NetFlights with VS metal. Helps with the taxi fares

shaneg17 wrote:£50 cheaper on NetFlights with VS metal. Helps with the taxi fares

Just something to be aware of is by booking direct with VS means that you can reduce the fare by putting FC miles towards it and also VS no longer have any credit card fees (which Netflights do).

We just booked two UC flights from MAN to BOS in May 17 and made a good saving by moving the departure day from a Friday to Wednesday. They cost GBP1100 each without using any of my points. Its worth experimenting with the days to save lots of money.

Thanks to this thread I managed to snag 2 UC return trips from MAN to BOS for under £2000 in peak season, even coming ng back the August bank holiday weekend