Warning: record flight prices - London to Paris

AirFlights.TO survey
12 Oct 2007 flights
survey on 16 Sep 2007

Paris - Eiffel tower It seems so long ago that British Airways were offering £44 flights from London to Paris (see 7 July 2007 survey). The good news this week is that British Airways flight BA0324, leaving London Heathrow (LHR) at 1900 and landing in Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) at 2115, is the cheapest flight in this survey (of flights on the 12th October, flying from London to Paris between 1700 and 2000). The bad news is that the British Airways flight costs £89.80.

Survey date	Flight date	Air France	British Airways	easyJet	KLM	National Express *	Eurostar **
16 Sep 2007	12 Oct 2007	£374	£89.80	£89.99 ¹	£342	£34.00	£154.50
9 Sep 2007	5 Oct 2007	£374	£57	£65 ¹	£342	£34.00	£154.50

[Survey of coaches, trains and flights from London to Paris,
leaving between 1700 and 2000 (London time).]

¹ an allowance has been made for 1 item of easyJet hold baggage weighing 20kg (which costs £2). KLM (economy class) allow 2 pieces of checked luggage weighing up to 23kg in total. British Airways (World Traveller and Euro Traveller) allow 1 piece of luggage weighing up to 23kg. Air France (Temp class) allows 2 pieces of checked luggage weighing up to 23kg in total. All airlines charge extra for non-standard sized baggage.

* coach/ferry, excluding travel insurance ** train

Record flight prices from London to Paris

Here's a list of the lowest flight prices in each of our surveys of the London to Paris flight route:

Flight date	cheapest flight from London to Paris
27 July 2007	£ 55 (a British Airways flight)
3 August 2007	£ 44 (a British Airways flight)
10 August 2007	£ 44 (a British Airways flight)
17 August 2007	£ 53 (an easyJet flight)
24 August 2007	£ 74 (an easyJet flight)
31 August 2007	£ 45 (an easyJet flight)
7 September 2007	£ 46 (a British Airways flight)
14 September 2007	£ 53 (an easyJet flight)
21 September 2007	£ 53 (an easyJet flight)
28 September 2007	£ 74 (an easyJet flight)
5 October 2007	£ 57 (a British Airways flight)
12 October 2007	£ 89.80 (a British Airways flight)

The cheapest flight from London to Paris, in all our surveys, is £44 (a British Airways flight). If you always chose the cheapest flight, the highest price you'd pay would be in today's survey of flights on the 12th October 2007 (£89.80).

British Airways and easyJet level pegging

What's interesting about the above survey is that on 6 occasions British Airways flights have been cheapest and on 6 occasions easyJet flights have been cheapest. One would have thought that easyJet, being a low cost carrier, would be cheaper than British Airways, but this is just as much the case as it isn't.