Booking Flights on Airlines that dont servise Ireland

[Hanners]

Hi,

Anyone any experience of this.

I'm looking to book flights to Australia and back via Dubai, the Emirates website (UK version) is quoting a good price for the flights I want, times etc. Is there any reason I couldnt book this, ie not being UK resident, credit card etc. The ticket will be ex Manchester so I was planning of getting there myself and then flying on with emirates as per the booking I make.

The website cant book flights out of Ireland as they dont fly here. I notice the tax is much lower than the tax I've been quoted on flights here.

Cheers

Hanners

 

[edo]

Hanners

Go ahead and Book - of course you can book flights exUK from here - no problem at all - UK is part of EU and as a EU citizen (which I assume you are) you can buy goods and services from any member country.

One small thing tho.

Make sure that the flights you book to Manchester give you plenty (and I mean plenty) of time to allow you to book in and board your flight onwards as you will not be travelling on a thru-ticket exDublin - if the time is too tight you could miss your flight onwards and the airline does have not to compensate you for this.

Give yourself a minimum of 3-4hrs between your flight landing in Manchester and scheduled depart time ex manchester - to allow for delays .security booking in etc etc . Do the same for your return flights as the same criteria will be involved.

I do this all the time meself.

A Former Travel Agent
EDO

 

[Hanners]

Thanks Edo, thought it would be ok just wanted to check! Was planning on getting there pretty early in any case.

Cheers

 

[redchariot]

I do know that some airlines will only accept credit cards from the country of departure e.g. if you are departing the UK, you will have to have a UK credit card with a UK address. This is the case for BA (who do fly to Ireland incidentally) but you can book over the phone with them instead

Don't know if this applies to Emirates though.