Cheap flights from the UK, free
Real fares other travellers saw in the last few days, cheapest first. No account, no sign-up, nothing held back.
- Real fares, never made up. Every price is one another traveller saw recently, from the official Aviasales Data API, with the date it was seen.
- Cheapest-days calendar and a "good price?" check for your month, so you can see if moving a day saves money.
- Never an empty page. Quiet dates? We show real fares on the closest dates and from airports nearby, with how far away they are.
- Families done properly. Add children with their ages and infants on a lap, then open "True total" for the whole family's cost, line by line.
- Explore anywhere. The cheapest places to fly from your airport in any month.
Try: London to Barcelona · Manchester to Málaga · Edinburgh to Amsterdam · Explore from your airport
Three tools for planning a family trip
Family True TotalEvery fare opens into a receipt: children's fares where the airline publishes the rule, lap-infant fees, hold bags, the airport drop-off charge and your own parking. Each fee has its source and date; anything we can't confirm says "not known".
School-holiday plannerPick your council in England, Scotland or Wales and see its official holiday dates, then real fares for the first weekend, the last weekend or the cheapest dates inside the holiday.
Which airport, really?London's six airports, or Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds Bradford, ranked by what the family pays, drop-off charge included. Fares are ones seen recently, so check the live price before you book.
Browser extension: in development, coming to the Chrome Web Store
One click to compare, from any flight or shop page
- Flights. Type a trip, or click the icon on a flight search, and Lowtide opens the same search on Google Flights, Skyscanner or KAYAK, with your dates, children's ages and infants filled in. Plain links: no tracking codes, no commission.
- Recent trips. Your last five trips are one tap away. They're stored only in your browser, and you can clear them any time.
- Shop. On a product page, Lowtide tidies the product name into a model-number search and opens it on Google Shopping, PriceRunner, PriceSpy, idealo, Amazon UK, eBay UK or Argos. Plain links, no affiliate tags.
- See prices on Lowtide. For a trip you typed, one button opens this website's free flight search with your trip filled in.
It only runs when you click it, never changes the page you're on and never adds coupons.
Coming later: shop prices in the extension
We're waiting for UK retailers and affiliate networks to approve us. When they do, the Shop tab will show the same product at other UK shops, cheapest first with delivery included, matched on barcode and model number. Until then it opens your search on the big UK comparison sites instead. We never show made-up prices, and we don't scrape shop websites.
Privacy
- No accounts, no cookies, no analytics on this website.
- The extension only runs when you click it, reads only the page you're on, and doesn't collect your browsing history.
- Flight searches in the extension stay in your browser. Our website's flight search sends the route, dates and travellers to our flights server to look up fares, and nothing that identifies you.
- Free fare alerts (switching on soon), including school-holiday alerts, will need only your email and the trip, with double opt-in and one-click unsubscribe.
- Your council, hold bags and your own travel costs on the planner and "True total" stay in your browser.
The full detail is in the privacy policy.
Free, and staying generous
Free
£0
- Flight search on lowtide.deals: real fares, cheapest-days calendar, "good price?" check, closest real fares and Explore
- Free fare alerts by email (switching on soon)
- Unlimited one-click flight comparisons on Google Flights, Skyscanner and KAYAK in the extension
- Recent trips and shop search links in the extension
Pro (later)
Not on sale
- Extras only, once the shop features exist, such as price history for products
Pro will only ever add extras: nothing in Free is taken away, limited or slowed down. There are no accounts or payments yet.
How we make money
On our flight search website, Book and "Check live prices" links go to Aviasales and we may earn a commission through the Travelpayouts affiliate programme, at no extra cost to you. It never changes the order of results.
The extension's links to Google Flights, Skyscanner, KAYAK and the shop sites are plain links: we earn nothing from them. Once shop partners approve us, we may earn a commission when you buy through a shop offer, and we'll say so next to it.
Contact
Questions, feedback or business enquiries: lowtide@battleship.me