Heads up. Super-cheap Easyjet flights for autumn and winter 2026/27 are about to land – here's how to snag your seats
Budget airline Easyjet opens up flight bookings in batches every few months – and if you find out what day they're launching and book swiftly, you can get FAR cheaper flights. We now know that tomorrow (Tuesday 9 December), the airline is launching flights for the autumn and winter of 2026/27, meaning there's an opportunity to get super-cheap prices.
Prices are often lowest when tickets first go on sale
Easyjet follows a dynamic demand pricing model – in other words, when there's lots of demand for seats you pay more; when there's less, you pay less. Prices are fluid, and it's usually tricky to predict.
However, there's one point when demand is almost always low – the very second seats are released. This happens in several batches throughout the year. In the past, these seats have surged in price within two or three hours of being put online, so being ready bright and early is the key to bagging a bargain.
Keep in mind that even if the flights seem cheaper than normal, it doesn't necessarily mean you're getting the best deal. As MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis has cautioned in the past:
This has been a very successful technique for many people, and indeed if you want certainty of a cheap price it's worth doing. Do benchmark what a good price on that route is beforehand, just so you can check if it's worth it.
Though of course, if a particular flight is very substantially under-booked later on, you could get seats even cheaper then – that's just far more difficult to predict.
Confirmed. Next seat release is early morning on Tuesday 9 December
The next batch of seats will be released on Easyjet's website for travel between 19 October 2026 and 31 January 2027. The airline will be releasing over 25 million seats to book across almost 138,000 flights, with more than 14 million seats to or from the UK up for grabs.
Easyjet told us that seats will be available online starting from 8am. However, in the past we've seen flights released before the official launch time – sometimes at 5am, sometimes at 6am, and occasionally at different times depending on the destination.
To max your chances of securing the best price, you probably want to be up and ready to browse from around 5.30am onwards, as prices tend to go up quickly after the initial launch. You can also see our 15 Easyjet tricks guide for more ways to save.
'A massive saving for us'
Here are just two of the many successes we saw from MoneySavers after the last seat release in July 2025:
Booked flights for a family of five to Majorca in August next year for £1,158. Jet2 were £2,500 so a massive saving for us! Booked at 6.30am 👍
- Lee E, via Facebook
I booked my flights first thing in the morning of the Easyjet sale... Only a couple of hours later the exact same booking/flights was £270 more expensive. Thank you so much for the information.
- Susan M, via email
Booked flights to Spain for next summer for four with hold bags £740 right as they launched around 8am. Later the same day they'd gone up to £950. Similar with Jet2 – £1,300.
- Claire B, via Facebook
Martin explains how this works (from last July but the principle is the same)
Martin recorded the video below for the July 2025 Easyjet seat release. While some of the info won't apply this time around – we know exactly how many seats are up for grabs, for example – the main tactics he shares are still relevant.
"This is an urgent heads up about potentially super cheap flights, dirt cheap flights, for summer 2026. I know it's a long time away, but this is important because it all happens next Tuesday 22 July. What's going to happen is it's one of Easyjet's quarterly flight launches. Now we always try and find out when they're happening, but we don't always get to.
"But we know this time. The thing to understand about Easyjet is it has dynamic pricing. That means the price of your flight depends on the demand at the time. And often if you manage to book the flight the moment it's launched, then there isn't any demand and the price is rock bottom. So these flights are specifically for next summer, between 15 June 2026 and 13 September 2026.
"It won't tell us how many seats are available, but last year at the same time it was 10 million UK flights. As for when it's going to launch, I don't know. I can tell you from the past, sometimes we've seen it at 5 or 6am, sometimes we've seen it at 8am, sometimes we've seen different flights to different places coming at different times during the morning.
"You're going to hate me for this, but if you really want to bag the super cheap flights, you probably want to be up at about 5.30 in the morning and refreshing to see if they're available, as long as we don't crash its website when we do that. So how cheap can it be? Really cheap. Possibly the cheapest you'll ever get the flights, but this is not guaranteed.
"It does not always work. It is a case of trial and error.
"Glasses on now so I can read you a couple of successes that show you what I'm talking about. This one's from 2023: 'Thanks, Martin. Flight nabbed at 6.15 for Christmas in Lanzarote at £215 cheaper than what they're now showing at 8am.' So it went up over £200 in just one hour 45 minutes.
"This is from last summer: 'Good result £1,260 family of five return to Portugal, including checked bags. 14 hours later, same booking was priced at around £1,700.'
"And this one: 'Released early around 6am. Just bagged five return adult flights to Crete August 2025, seats and luggage £1,700 saving over £1,000 on yesterday's search prices.' So no guarantees but hopefully next year I'll be reading out your success.
"So what I'd suggest you do before they start this is you go and look at the prices other airlines are selling flights for next summer at, at the moment. So you've got a benchmark of what is a reasonable price and what isn't a reasonable price. And then you get up next Tuesday if you're looking for this, and you cross your fingers."
Full transcript of Martin's video
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