This was in summer half term last year - it would have cost something like £1500 for the four of us. I got a train in the end, it was about half the price. And, no, it wasn't last minute - it was about three months before we left.
Now, here's a good example. Last year, we were staying not far from Carcassone so I looked at Ryanair - the flights were something like £260/£270 ... before tax.
... which may explain things. We were flying to a sunny place during the holidays. Doesn't explain the lack of cheap flights to...
I'm really intrigued by this Ryanair reputation for cheapness. For years I worked for a couple of companies whose policies were that any flights made by staff members HAD to be the cheapest. As someone who (or whose staff) made a dozen or so trips every year, I dutifully searched for the...