Ryanair slashes ticket prices to as low as £4.99 in massive one-day sale

Ryanair has answered all our prayers.

For anyone who is watching how they spend, but still wants a holiday, budget airline Ryanair has launched a major sale of 300,000 tickets - but it ends at midnight tonight. So run, don’t walk … Ryanair's ticket sale is for flights in May, and some cost just £4.99. Among the deals are £4.99 one-way tickets to Budapest, in Hungary, Italy's Trapani and Maastricht in the Netherlands. UK customers can pick from more than 230 destinations including Spain, France, Poland, Germany, Morocco, Greece and more. The affordable flights go from airports in Stansted, Gatwick, Luton, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Derry, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle. The news comes after holidays began to look less and less unlikely after British Airways and easyJet have cancelled more than 100 flights cancelled more than 100 flights to or from UK airports as those planning to get away for Easter break are stuck at terminals. BA are thought to have grounded 78 flights going to and from Heathrow at the start of April, having already reduced its schedule until the end of May to boost reliability, as well as suspending multiple routes entirely for several months because of the pandemic. easyJet is also said to have cancelled at least 30 flights scheduled to or from Gatwick Airport earlier this month. The routes affected include: Amsterdam, Krakow, and Poland; Bologna, Italy, and Berlin. This comes after reports of long queues and the possibility of the army being called in to help manage crowds at the likes of Manchester and Birmingham airport - an issue that is thought could continue for weeks, if not longer.

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