The EU is resonsible the flutuating charter airline prices. The t/o who had their own airline used to them as a tax loss to pay less tax on the companies overall profits. The eu ruled the airlines had to be splite from the holiday company and run as a seperate company. The result to survive the airline had to make a profit and fares would be dictated by market conditions.

I am not a fan of the eu because they have had a big impact on our lives with meddling rules that are not needed. The euro had the biggest impact on holiday prices with hotel chains sneaking large increases in. Resorts shops and bars upping prices with the euro creation. I was in majorca the year before the euro was introduced and the year it was introduced in the same resort. Basically if a pint of bear was 400pts it became 4 euro's, if something was 100pts it became 1 euro. I was getting 270pts to the £ the year before the euro now we get 1.40 ueros to the pound. That caused prices to double. I do believe if the euro didn't excist we would be getting over 300 euro's to the £ today.

I have noticed over the last few years big hikes in holiday prices.

I booked a holiday to turkey for next year and with my system I got £235 off thomas cooks web price, checked the price today and it has gone by £585 from what I have paid. I don't know why but it is a big increase. I can see it coming back down again.

I believe the hike in prices is down to the bad summer here with people deciding book to go away next year or the t/ops believing people are more likely to book to go away next year because of the bad summer this year and the t/ops are using this years bad summer to push up prices next year.

Has anybody been on thomsons build your own holiday, we did it this july and got nearly £600 of the broucher. You need to wait till a month before where planes have plenty of seats available.

Even for the school hols there are 3* hotel to majorca for a week for around £300 per person and one 3* hotel c'an picafort 3 people sharing a room for just over £700 everything included. The only down sode is the hotel mainly german but that shouldn't be a problem. Or son baulo for £1200 3 sharing 2 sharing £700 hotel haiti £1000 3 sharing 2 sharing £700 leaving this sunday from gatwick . Just look at the build your own holiday between 1 to 3 days before want to go to get the best price. Majorca is good because they have so many flights and plenty of unsold seats.