You could try going on the 'Travel Republic' website. They are coming up with lots of options cheaper than that.

i am going to portugal in oct and got acheap flight with bmbaby about £60 pound cheaper than thompson.

I always use flymonarch.com for flights to Faro.

If you enter your details then click the calendar view tab you can see what dates are cheapest to fly on.

me and the familey are going to portugal from brum for two weeks and will are paying £65 return per person with http://www.bmibaby.com

£65 quid??? return?? is that in July/August???

BTW anyone with any promo codes??

School holidays and cheap flights are two things that seldom go hand in hand I'm afraid. The best option is going to be a lot of research checking all the low cost airlines and tour operators for seat only charter flights.

Low cost airlines:
http://www.flymonarch.com
http://www.bmibaby.com
http://www.jet2.com
http://www.flyglobespan.com
http://www.easyjet.com
http://www.thomsonfly.com

Tour operators:
http://www.thomson.co.uk
http://www.mytravel.com
http://www.firstchoice.co.uk
http://www.flythomascook.com
http://www.avro.co.uk
http://www.xl.com

It is also worth checking some of the online websites selling charter flight seats. http://www.airflights.co.uk, http://www.flydeals.co.uk and http://www.flightline.co.uk all tend to be good. They are really useful as they will search all the tour operators for flights. If you find one thats reasonable, you can then check the tour operator's own site and usually knock another couple of quid off.

Ryanair from Stansted